Why It’s So Hard to Fight Fisheries Crime
A court in São Tomé and Príncipe, a small oceanic island off the African west coast, recently delivered an historical verdict in the fight against the transnational criminal syndicates involved in fisheries crime. The court convicted the Chilean captain and two Spanish officials of the Thunder, a Nigerian-flagged vessel considered to be one of the […]
For the Future of Fisheries in West-Africa
In order to see fisheries reborn, West African States must take up their responsibility to eradicate all forms of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, including a practice which is slowly killing a collapsing sector: the underreporting of Gross Tonnage (GT)! Rarely mentioned when discussing IUU fishing, under-reporting of the gross tonnage of some industrial […]
Minister and delegation survive savage attack
MINISTER of fisheries Bernhard Esau and his delegation survived a savage attack by illegal fishermen in the Zambezi region. Esau related his ordeal to The Namibian yesterday on how they escaped panga attacks from fish poachers in Lake Liambezi about 60 kilometres south of Katima Mulilo. The minister said he and his delegation were on […]
