Senegal has partnered with a group of fishing industry private players to launch the pole-and-line tuna fishery improvement project (FIP) nearly two years after a memorandum of understanding was signed for its implementation, in an effort to support the West African country’s fisheries sector to achieve Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification.
The new FIP – which has brought together the Senegalese government, WWF-UK, Thai
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Singapore-based Pure Salmon has picked Lesotho, the mountainous landlocked kingdom encircled by South Africa, as its preferred location for one of nine global land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facilities the company hopes to open to achieve an annual production of 260,000 tons of salmon by 2025.
The project will be Africa’s first RAS salmon farm, said Stephane Farouze, Pure Salmon board director and founder of BF Asset
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Gabon has renewed its partnership with global ocean conservation group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to support the country’s drive to eliminate illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing in its portion of the Atlantic Ocean coastal waters.
For the next three years, the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd will
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Uganda received new fishing industry guidelines at the beginning of the month.
The new guidelines come at a time when the landlocked East African country is experiencing falling fish prices that have posed a threat to fish processing businesses, which rely on Lake Victoria for fish supply
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South Africa is proposing a review of an existing policy on abalone fishing rights to ensure more small-scale fishing coastal communities – hitherto considered marginalized under existing fisheries regulations – have their share of access to the resource increased as one way of tackling the runaway poaching of the endemic abalone species Haliotis midae.
Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Minister Senzeni
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The 55-nation African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) launched this month, nearly two months after an agreement creating it came into force.
Countries in the region will benefit from free trade in seafood and fishery products and full compliance with the 1995 FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.
The AfCFTA Agreement, which was earlier signed in Kigali, Rwanda, on 21 March, 2018, promotes closer economic integration among
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South Africa has temporarily suspended licensed exploratory fishing for octopus in the False Bay area, one of the locations earlier selected by the country's Department of Environment, Forestry, and Fisheries (DEFF) for data collection on the potential of commercial octopus fishing to create jobs and support the country’s economic development.
The suspension announced by Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy on 28
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WorldFish, a not-for-profit research organization that promotes the harnessing of fisheries and aquaculture resources for reduction of food insecurity and poverty in developing countries, has unveiled a new innovation hub – ”Fish for Africa” – to enable continent to build on its fast-growing urbanization and emerging technology in a bid to improve livelihoods within communities in the region.
The Innovation Hub, which was
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Three East Africa countries have separately announced new plans that would enable them to reap from the fisheries and aquaculture of Lake Victoria and the Indian Ocean, as they presented their 2019-2020 financial year budgets concurrently.
The plans by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda – all members of the East African Community, a six-member inter-governmental organization in the African Great Lakes region – include rehabilitation of
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The expansion and improvement of the fishmeal and fish oil industry in West Africa has triggered huge appetite for the flat sardinella (Sardinella aurita and S. maderensis) and bonga (Ethmalosa fimbriata) – fish species that are considered critical in meeting the region’s food demands, but are also overexploited to the point of near-depletion.
“The current situation is one of over-exploited and depleted fish stocks and a
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