Capricorn Marine Environmental (Pty) Ltd (CapMarine) is a leading national and international marine monitoring consultancy based in Cape Town. We have been providing highly trained, locally contracted marine observers for offshore industrial activities since 1999. Our greatest strength is the quality of our staff. We are able to offer a comprehensive range of marine monitoring and consultancy services through our team of highly experienced marine observers assisted by our in-house management and scientific staff. The company employs over 40 people enabling us to provide an efficient service to our clients. CapMarine takes on specialist consulting services to numerous international organisations. The nature of this work relates mostly to fisheries programmes for the World Bank (developing world) and the United Nations (Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations). Current projects include the development of a multi-national fisheries project (Comores, Tanzania, Mozambique and Seychelles) in the South West Indian Ocean (the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Governance and Shared Growth Program - SWIOFish). CapMarine is also providing direct consulting support for the Kenya Coastal Development Project (KCDP) and also the Lake Victoria project. CapMarine works closely with NGOs such as WWF and SFP (Sustainable Fisheries Partnership) to develop and implement Fisheries Improvement Programmes (FIPs). Our focus is on Africa and includes the Mozambique shrimp fisheries, Kenyan lobster, Tanzanian Octopus and the South African hake longline fisheries.