Shem Oirere is a Kenyan journalist who previously worked for daily newspapers as a general news correspondent, business reporter and sub-editor before turning to full-time freelancing. For the more than 20 years, he has covered various sectors of Africa’s economy including agriculture, food processing, and maritime industries. A graduate of the University of South Africa, he has traveled within and outside Africa covering various industry events that have a bearing on the continent’s economy on behalf of different international consumer and trade publications. He currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya.
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced it plans to award subsidies to its fishing sector, just weeks after the World Trade Organization finalized a deal to end fuel subsidies to help reduce overfishing.
The UAE Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment has partnered with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and the Emirates National Oil Company to launch the subsidy scheme to help the country’s fishermen deal with
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The Saudi Fisheries Company (SFC) has fired its CEO after suffering significant losses ...
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The Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangement (CFFA) said it has doubts regarding the credibility of a recent report showcasing the progress made by the small pelagics fishery improvement program (FIP) in Mauritania.
The CFFA describes itself as a platform of NGOs based in Brussels, Belgium, that "documents the development and environmental impacts of European Union, African, Caribbean, and Pacific states' fisheries relations on
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Iran’s seafood exports increased by 19 percent to 166,000 metric tons (MT) over the 12-month period ending in March 2022, according to State Fishery Organization (IFO) Head Hossein Hosseini …
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Namibia has unveiled new voluntary guidelines for the sustainable management of the country’s small-scale fisheries as the country begins implementing its National Plan of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries (NPOA-SSF) – a plan that has been under development for the past two years.
The guidelines, which have been developed by the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization
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Cape Town, South Africa-based seafood company Oceana Group has dismissed its chief financial officer, Hajra Karrim, with immediate effect, alleging gross misconduct, continuing a string of shake-ups in its executive suite.
Karrim has been suspended since early February 2022, and a statement by the company's board of directors said her termination “results from the completion of a disciplinary procedure that resulted in her
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Fisheries Development Oman (FDO), a joint-stock company and subsidiary of Oman Investment Authority, has signed a construction contract with a local company for the development of a tuna and sardine canning complex slated to commence operations in 2024.
FDO, through its affiliate firm, International Seafood Company, signed the RO 14 million (USD 36.2 million EUR 33.7 million) deal with Al Hajiry Projects for the complex, which will process an
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Tuna purse-seine organizations OPAGAC and ORTHONGEL have partnered with start-up Brikole to launch a two-phase fishing-net recycling project in the Seychelles …
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Cape Town, South Africa-based Oceana Group’s external auditor – PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) – has abruptly resigned from the position, the company has announced.
Oceana confirmed the resignation came a day before a scheduled consultation meeting of shareholders that was to discuss the company’s next action after a majority of its board of directors voted against reappointing of PwC as the group’s external auditor.
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Agriculture, fisheries, and qquaculture ministers from 14 countries that are members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have issued a report on the organization's Protocol on Fisheries, which seeks to harmonize the countries’ domestic fisheries legislation.
The ministers met on 13 May, 2022 in Lilongwe, Malawi, to review the steps SADC member-states have made toward advancing the protocol.
Although the
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