Initially conceived and implemented as a project with broadly based activities in technical assistance, training, and commodity procurement activities, the Fisheries Development and Management Project (FDMP) was initiated in May 1991. in October 1992 a project evaluation by USAID recommended a technical redesign, which was implemented in December 1992. The modified project concentrates on institution building by refocusing technical assistance activities more narrowly on training and database development, with the aim of increasing the capacity of the staff of the Directorate General of Fisheries Resources (DGFR) to manage, conserve, and develop Oman's fishery resources. By concentrating this training on skills essential for research and stock assessment/management and for statistics and database development, the project will foster increased capacity for the DGFR to make informed policy recommendations and fishery management plans based on timely, accurate statistical information. This quarterly progress report records activities of the first complete quarter subsequent to the implementation of the redesigned project. Parenthetical notations following activities detailed in this report correlate with designations in the FDMP Technical Redesign document.