Namibia’s seafood trade has received a major boost from the country’s partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) – connections that have enabled local development of a food safety and quality assurance system.
IAEA said the system “incorporates nuclear science into quality tests for food and water safety and has allowed the country to make
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The implementation of one of Africa’s major fisheries governance projects has received a major boost with the successful recruitment of Godfrey Baidoo-Tsibu to coordinate a key component of the sub-regional initiative.
The Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea Programme for Improved Regional Fisheries Governance in Western Africa (FCWC-PESCAO) has successfully recruited Baidoo-Tsibu, formerly a regional director with
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South Africa has published for public comment a new proposed management structure of the more than 300 estuaries along the country’s 3,200 kilometer coastline as the government moves to protect nursery areas for numerous estuarine fish species and other productive marine ecosystems …
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Saudi Arabia is pushing to increase its seafood production to 600,000 metric tons in the next 10 years, an initiative that has encouraged a surge in private sector investments in the aquaculture sector’s pre-harvest, production, and post-harvest segments.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based Aqua Bridge Farms Co. has become the latest private sector investor to achieve a milestone in Saudi Arabia’s seafood industry, after making a
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The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) is sounding the alarm on an impending stalling of its operations due to a lack of funding, as some of the organization’s members are unable to pay up their 2020 annual contributions due to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
IOTC Executive Secretary Christopher O’Brien has asked members with unpaid subscriptions to address the non-payment issue “with the utmost urgency to
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Four African countries are among nine Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) members that have formed a new working group to explore options for supporting the seafood industry, and the wider marine fisheries and aquaculture industry in and around the Indian Ocean as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on the regional economy.
During a virtual meeting on 23 June of the IORA Cluster Group on Fisheries Management, Kenya, Madagascar,
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Somalia’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has asked Iran to disclose more information on its fishing fleet’s activities in the Northwest Indian Ocean region after several of them were spotted in exclusive economic zones of Somalia and Yemen.
Somalia Fisheries Minister Abdilahi Warsame said there is increasing concern of illegal fishing in Somalia’s EEZ by foreign fishing vessels, the majority of which are from the
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The South Africa Deep-Sea Trawling Industry Association (SADSTIA) has picked Sea Harvest Chief Executive Officer Felix Ratheb as its new chairman ...
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