The FISH Safety Foundation recently published a report ‘Triggering Death, Quantifying the true human cost of global fishing’, which estimates that more than 100,000 persons involved in fishing are killed every year, a number four times higher than the fatalities estimated by ILO.
China's capture of Ghana's fishing industry is threatening food security
Even though it is illegal for foreign vessels to fish in Ghana, over the last decade Chinese-owned vessels have proliferated. Journalist Kwabena Adu Koranteng investigates how business people well connected with power act as fronts for Chinese fishing industry. Ghana loses 50M€/year but more concerning is the fact that severe overfishing is impacting food security and nutrition in the country.
COFI 35: “Never has there been such enthusiasm for small-scale fisheries”
“People think the fishing business is for the illiterate, but they cannot be more wrong”
Small-scale fishers' "little babel" speaks with one voice at UN oceans conference
MEPs call on the Commission to use fisheries partnership agreements as a lever for regional management in West Africa
The European Parliament's Fisheries Committee has highlighted the impact of the fishmeal industry in Mauritania on the food security of West African populations and called on Mauritania, the EU and neighbouring countries to support and "initiate an international dialogue" for the creation of an RFMO for shared stocks.
Ghana artisanal fishers facing the perfect storm of climate change and IUU fishing
FPAOI calls on countries and actors in the region to engage in the FiTI
Doors wide open for the San Pedro cold store
The 40-foot container is the first real impact perceived by fishmongers and processors from the sustainable fisheries partnership agreement between Côte d'Ivoire and the European Union, but the women face another challenge: access to credit and thus to the liquidity needed to build up working capital, which is necessary to buy fish.
Guinean Artisanal fishermen complain that Asians are fishing in the area reserved for them
A local initiative to save turtles to turn into the biggest co-managed MPA in Côte d'Ivoire
The Grand Béréby Marine Protected Area will cover about 2400 square kilometers of ocean and will include a 54 km stretch of coastal water, to be “free from industrial fishing”. Besides vital fisheries, the area is home to endangered populations of leatherback, olive ridley and green sea turtles and threatened populations of sharks and rays.
“Our business is to create jobs for our communities”
When people are starving, footage of fresh fish used for fishmeal is disturbing
AU-EU Summit: High-level commitments, but artisanal fishing communities want concrete action
EU-AU Summit: African fisheries stakeholders speak with one voice
With two weeks to go before the summit that will bring together the leaders of the European Union and the African Union in Brussels on 17 and 18 February 2022, the team that has taken over the reins of AFRIFISH - the continental platform that brings together non-state actors in African fisheries - is determined to make itself heard.
Fishmeal and fish oil production in West Africa destroys the region’s resources to the benefit of foreign countries
Something cool for Côte d'Ivoire women fish processors will give them more power in the marketplace
Access to refrigeration is difficult for women in fisheries in many West African countries. With a first trial in San Pedro which has guaranteed the supply of fish to women in Abidjan, now it’s the Grand Béréby women fish processors who are expecting a refrigerated truck, a container and an ice machine. An article by Rich Press.