Liberia

Liberian fishers are essential for food security: Investing in them must be the cornerstone of any EU-Liberia relation

Liberian fishers are essential for food security: Investing in them must be the cornerstone of any EU-Liberia relation

SSF are threatened by competition from foreign industrial fleets, declining fisheries resources, and management measures that undermine its sustainable development. While EU-funded projects aim to address these issues by promoting sustainable fisheries governance, structural challenges, including inadequate enforcement of the Inshore Exclusion Zone (IEZ), remain.

Activities of Senegalese trawlers in Liberia: the companies incriminated by CFFA, SOPERKA and PEREIRA, react

Activities of Senegalese trawlers in Liberia: the companies incriminated by CFFA, SOPERKA and PEREIRA, react

SOPERKA, a Senegalese fishing company, in a joint venture with the Spanish company Grupo Pereira, wished to react to our article Experimental fishing or experimental pillaging in Liberia?” Mr Kandji, Managing Director, Mr Serrano, from the company Pereira, adviser to SOPERKA for its fishing operations, and Mr Perez Bouzada, a lawyer, who defends the interests of the company Pereira, expressed their views on a series of issues raised in the article.

Senegal and Liberia will conduct joint fisheries research to evaluate Liberia fisheries viability. For Liberia ‘carabineros’, this may come too late

Senegal and Liberia will conduct joint fisheries research to evaluate Liberia fisheries viability. For Liberia ‘carabineros’, this may come too late

Sponsored by the World Bank, as part of their Liberia Sustainable Management of Fisheries project worth 40 million euros, this research campaign will take advantage of the CRODT research vessel, the ITAF DEME, launched in 2021 with the EU-Senegal Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) sectoral support.

Experimental fishing or experimental pillaging in Liberia?

Experimental fishing or experimental pillaging in Liberia?

After the recent derogation for a Turkish purse seiner in Mauritania to fish in a zone reserved for artisanal fisheries, "Senegalized" trawlers of Spanish origin are fishing for deep water shrimps in Liberia through the Senegal-Liberia agreement, supposedly for experimental purposes.

EU-Liberia SFPA: what should a potential future protocol look like?

EU-Liberia SFPA: what should a potential future protocol look like?

In this position paper, CFFA comments on which resources could be accessed by the EU fleet in Liberia’s EEZ, on the need for more transparency and how the EU can positively contribute to Liberian fisheries governance.