building on progress being made through technical advances fisheries management and the eaf the hope is to address the longstanding issue of food loss and undue damage to the ecosystems caused by bycatch and discards success will depend on combined efforts by governments civil society the private sector fishers and consumers in applying contextspecific solutions these policies aim to restore badly overfished and damaged marine and coastal resources in the respective countries a crucial element in this development has been capacity building of key stakeholders through the processes of the ecosystem approach to fisheries eaf