Kenya fisheries risk assessment

Kenya fisheries risk assessment

March 2016 - As part of work to support fisheries management in Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) in Kenya, Sandy Davies (Technical Director) and Per Erik Bergh (Managing Director) facilitated a risk assessment workshop in Kalifi, Kenya from the 1st to the 2nd of March 2016.

The workshop included a wide range of sectors , including, port authorities, district governments, inland revenue, researchers , MCS officers and managers, police and maritime authorities. The assessment invloved identitying the key marine fishery units for consideration, these were the off-shore longline and purse-seine fisheries, the coastal fishery and the shrimp fishery. Next the group identified all risks associated with these fisheries and sorted these into groups under the headings: excess fishing capacity/effort, non-compliance in the catching sectors, non-compliance in the post-harvest sector, management systems and environmental or ecosystems. The likelihood and consequences of these risks being realised was determined and a resultant overall risk category (low, moderate, high, severe) given to each risk. Finally the group looked at the managment and operational responses to these risks in order to include these into a strategic plan for MCS for Kenyan fisheries.

 

members of the NFDS team were in London for the 9th International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing at Chatham House.