Stephen Akester is a fisheries management specialist with experience in fisheries management in African, Middle East and South Asian countries working for international institutions, national governments and private sector companies. He has over 40 years’ experience in the design, preparation, implementation, and management of fisheries management and development projects. He is a Director at MacAlister Elliott and Partners (MEP), a specialist fisheries management consultancy company and first worked in the Sub Region in Liberia and Sierra Leone starting in 1982 and has program experience in the region ever since with current activities in Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana where he advises on WARFP program activities in Monitoring, Control and surveillance (MCS), and project implementation.