by FISH-i | Apr 9, 2018 | Fish i News
The eight member countries of the FISH-i Africa Task Force have once again closed ranks and forced a known IUU fishing vessel to flee the region. STS-50 called in port in Madagascar in February 2018 where inspectors identified that it was in fact the IUU listed vessel...
by FISH-i | Mar 19, 2018 | Fish i News
FISH-i Africa participated in a stakeholder’s consultative workshop for the validation of the Framework for Institutional Collaboration on Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) in the South West Indian Ocean (SWIO), held in Gaborone, Botswana from the 7th – 9th...
by FISH-i | Mar 14, 2018 | Fish i News
A High Level Symposium on Capacity Building for Maritime Security, organised by the SafeSeas initiative, was held in Nairobi, Kenya on the 2nd March. The discussion included questions on why maritime security matters, the best means of building regional maritime...
by FISH-i | Feb 20, 2018 | Fish i News
Twenty-two crewmembers are currently being held in the Maldives awaiting repatriation to Thailand, following the detention of the Thai-owned trawlers CHOTPATTANA 51 and CHOTPATTANA 55 by authorities in the Maldives. The vessels were part of a group of Thai-owned,...
by FISH-i | Feb 16, 2018 | Fish i News
FISH-i Africa support of Operation Jodari, a partnership between Tanzanian authorities and international conservation organisation Sea Shepherd, has revealed the appalling treatment of crews aboard fishing vessels in the Western Indian Ocean. The Ocean Warrior, Sea...
by FISH-i | Feb 15, 2018 | Fish i News
Patrols conducted under Operation Jodari, a partnership between Tanzania’s Multi-Agency Task Team, Sea Shepherd and FISH-i Africa, in January and February 2018, and the Indian Ocean Commission Programme Régional de Surveillance des Pêches (IOC-PRSP) in late 2017 have...
