Requests keep pouring into the BOBP office f rom individuals as well as membergovernments. Basudev Bhowmick and Md Riaz, fishing company officials from Bangladesh need sound information on the pelagic stocks of Bangladesh's EEZ; Mustafa Ahmed from Maldives needs better on-board preservation technology for his fishing dhoni; Suharyanto, running an NGO in Indonesia, wants to implement community- based fisheries management in villages where his organisation operates; Daniel Pereira, a multi-day boat owner from Negombo, Sri Lanka, is always apprehensive of a break-down of his fishing boat and its drifting to neighbouring countries where the crew can be detained for long periods. He wants the BOBP countries to evolve regulations which can facilitate early repatriation of such fishermen and their boats ... and the list goes on. The reply is common - the BOBP is trying to evolve as an inter-governmental organisation (BOBP-IGO) and interventions can only be possible once the BOBP-IGO is set up.read more