Shem Oirere

Namibian fishing industry workers and organizations are protesting the licensing of miners to prospect for minerals in the country’s coastal seabed and are asking the government to declare a moratorium on issuance of any new permits and to revoke any previously granted as to protect the country’s fisheries and aquaculture sector, the second-largest export earner of foreign currency after mining.

Protests broke out early this month in

The Eastern Africa countries of Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are implementing a USD 24 million (EUR 21.7 million) fisheries and integrated water management project that would enable the country to effectively address the poor management and deterioration of fisheries on the shared lakes Albert and Edward, to improve production and enhance food security.

The Global Environment Fund, African Development Bank, and the Nile

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is helping Sudan, a country of 33 million people, develop a fisheries and aquaculture investment plan this year, to help the country develop multiple facets of the industry. 

The new plan is intended to attract technical and financial support for the harnessing of Sudan’s inland and marine fisheries resources. It also includes plans to package investment opportunities in aquaculture for

Mozambique’s underperforming fishing industry is likely to continue grappling with declining catches and a degraded marine ecosystem as the government looks for ways to revive and implement a major fishing industry initiative. 

Mozambique’s efforts involve the launch of a fishing and security fleet meant to harness and protect its marine resources. The country received the fishing and marine security equipment nearly six years

Kenya has launched a new Coast Guard Service (CGS) to fight rampant illegal fishing and help the country increase its own seafood yields.

The CGS was launched by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in November 2018 with the mandate of fighting illegal fishing in Kenya’s territorial waters in addition to supporting the war against terrorism, piracy, and human and drug trafficking. With intensified patrols of the East African country’s

Malawi’s total fish production is expected to increase by 8.5 percent in 2019, after a slight decline in 2018.

The decline was triggered by falling water levels in key fishing lakes that hampered fish recruitment and breeding, according to the country’s 2018 Annual Economic Report.

Although Malawi’s total fish catch increased from 157,268 metric tons (MT) in 2016 to 199,454 MT in 2017, an equivalent of 26.8 percent rise, the

South Africa’s Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (DAFF) is proceeding with the establishment of a sea-based aquaculture development zone (ADZ) in the Algoa Bay after revising the initial project plan.

Stakeholders have now been asked to submit their feedback to the draft basic assessment report on DAFF’s revised second and final application for environmental authorization for the development of the ADZ that entails

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

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