Project to help the Government of Senegal (GOS) to better determine the availability, distribution, and variety of fish off its coastline by providing the GOS Centre de Recherches Oceaniographiques de Dakar-Thiaroye (CRODT) with the hydroacoustic equipment needed to improve its fish-finding and assessment capacities, and with attendant TA. The equipment, which will be installed on board a 25 meter-long research vessel operated by CRODT, the Laurent Amaro, will allow CRODT to explore the water column and sea bottom to a depth of some 200 meters and over 11 miles in length in an hour, and with a smaller crew than is currently used. U.S. equipment suppliers and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will provide training for the installation and maintenance of equipment and the interpretation of assessment data. CRODT will transmit fish stock assessment data to the GOS Office of Oceanography and Marine Fisheries, which will use it to develop national and regional fishing strategies.