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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South Africa and Chile have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that entails the two nations using their resources to support each other’s fishery and aquaculture efforts and develop methods that help both effectively combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities in their waters.
“The agreement marks a significant step in the strengthening of bilateral relations and collaborative efforts between South
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Saudi Fisheries Company (SFC) has created a new aquaculture company, betting that a government goal to increase fish-farming output along the country's 2,600-kilometer coastline will pan out.
In early October, Saudi Fisheries’ board of directors approved the establishment of a new aquaculture affiliate firm that will be wholly owned by SFC and have starting capital of SAR 100,000 (USD 26,600, EUR 24,500).
The
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Climate change is decimating the stocks of small pelagic fish in Ghana and putting the livelihoods of more than 100,000 fishers, as well as 2 million others working up and down the country’s seafood value chain, at risk, according to a new report.
The report, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies – a Washington, D.C., U.S.A.-based think tank – said that although shrinking fish stocks have mostly been
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Muscat, Oman-based seafood-processing firm Oman Fisheries Company has fired its chief operating officer – just 18 months after the company’s board of directors confirmed his appointment.
The board said in a recent statement to the Muscat Stock Exchange (MSX) that Miguel Sanchez’s last working day in the COO role will be 31 December 2024 due to what the firm deemed an “unacceptable decline” in his
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Abu Dhabi is investing in floating sea cage aquaculture to boost the United Arab Emirates’ food security and preserve and protect the nation’s marine biodiversity and ecosystems.
To spur the practice, the emirate has launched a new fish-farming project comprising six floating sea cages. The project aims to cultivate 100 metric tons (MT) of fish annually – nearly a quarter of what the country produced in 2021, which is the
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The South African National Parks (SANParks) department, a government entity responsible for conserving and overseeing South Africa's national parks, has voiced concern on the growing illegal harvesting of abalone in the country, calling for stronger collaboration between communities and the nation’s government in ending the illicit trade.
In addition to the effects the illicit trade has on the stock’s population, the increasing
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The sustainable fisheries partnership agreement (SFPA) between the European Union and the West African nation of Senegal is set to expire in November, and if the two parties can not strike a deal before then it also poses a challenge to the planned renegotiation for a similar deal the bloc has with neighboring Gambia, which lapses in June 2025.
Renewal of the E.U.’s deal with Senegal hit a speed bump in May 2024 when the European
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On 4 October, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) upheld its 2021 decision that declared the sustainable fisheries partnership agreement between the E.U. and Morocco invalid, annulling the deal over Morocco’s political conflict with neighboring Western Sahara.
As a result, the path forward for Morocco and the E.U. to renew the SFPA, which expired in July 2023, becomes murkier.
The deal gave Morocco EUR 52 million
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