A new report on the Sanyang region of coastal Gambia calls on the government in Banjul to take all necessary steps against illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing in order to protect local communities. The Amnesty International report on the human cost of overfishing is based on firsthand observations of…
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Climate change may be contributing to a rise in maritime piracy, according to a new study from criminologists based in Macau and the United States. The researchers looked at 15 years of data on piracy attacks in the South China Sea and along the East African coastline, in places like…
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Ghanaian President Nana Akufo Addo delivered thousands of outboard motors and other fishing gear to the country’s coastal residents on Tuesday, while encouraging them to end illegal practices and pursue a sustainable industry. Akufo Addo, along with other agency leaders including fisheries minister Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, made the presentation during…
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In Iceland, the Samherji fishing company announced Thursday that CEO Thorsteinn Már Baldvinsson will step down during an internal investigation into recent allegations of corporate wrongdoing in Namibia, where the firm has operations through its subsidiaries. Björgólfur Jóhannsson will step into the acting CEO role, the company said in its…
West Africans are losing the income and food security linked to their fishing trade because of fishmeal and fish oil exports, most of which is going to Asia and the European Union while leaving communities on the continent behind. That’s according to a new Greenpeace report that says the three…
Namibia has upped investment in its fishing industry with the welcome of “Oshiveli,” the country’s first brand-new fishing vessel built for Tunacor. The USD$13.8 million ship was built in Spain before arriving in Walvis Bay, where it is set to begin working at the end of December, according to the…
Environmentalists with the Sea Shepherd organization say authorities from São Tomé and Príncipe and Gabon worked with their marine conservationists to stop illegal shark fishing off the African coast. The fishing vessel Vema, flagged in Senegal but linked to Spain, was licensed to catch tuna but when the boat was…
With all of the attention paid to United States President Donald Trump’s tirades on trade during the weekend G7 meeting in Canada, it might go unnoticed that a number of African heads of state were in Quebec too – and they were focused on environment and climate in a G7…
A researcher from Madagascar, with his South African and French counterparts, has discovered the existence of a coastal current off the island nation’s coast that may lead to improved fishing and marine industry management. Work from their study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, is part of a collaboration that includes…
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday disputed the charge that a Chinese mining company operating in Mozambique has violated environmental laws and harmed the lives of villagers in Nagonha, a coastal town east of Nampula City near the Haiyu corporation’s operations. “I want to point out that this organization…