Responsible control and surveillance aims at reducing threats and pressures while maintaining the integrity of the targeted sites. The approach has two components: (i) community control and surveillance (CCS), (ii) joint control with local and national authority (including representatives from the department of Fishery Control and Surveillance at the Ministry of Fisheries).

At each site, CCS members implemented weekly patrols to ensure law enforcement based on social conventions – named Dina – and MPA regulations. CCS members are equipped with canoe, binoculars, and uniforms; they use Cybertracker, a component of Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tools that gives on time the date, the location and types of offenses CCS members have faced. A protocol is generated for each patrol.

Based on the analysis of CCS reports, joint patrols are organized in case of important and repeated offences. Joint patrol members are entitled to arrest and seize illegal fishing gears.