October 2025 – Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Senga Bay, Salima, district of Lake Malawi, for a national consultative workshop on the issue of monofilament nets
October 2025 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Sandy Davies (Senior Fisheries and Environment Director), Noa Senete (MCS Expert), Regina Dithapo (Communications Expert) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Maputo, Mozambique
September 2025 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Noa Senete (MCS Expert), Malebogo Seofeleng (Project Administrator) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Walvis Bay for the concluding Working Group of the
September 2025 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Noa Senete (MCS Expert) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Maputo for an operational training on the use of body-worn cameras (BWC) in
July 2025 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Noa Senete (MCS Expert) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Angola for a fourth in-person training of MCS officers from Luanda as part
June 2025 —Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Nice on behalf of NFDS during the third high-level 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use
May 2025 — Sandy Davies (Senior Fisheries and Environment Director) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Lomé, Togo for the eighteenth meeting of the West Africa Task Force (WATF) of the Fisheries Committee
May 2025 —Sandy Davies, (Senior Fisheries and Environment Director), Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) and Malebogo Seofeleng (Project Administrator) travelled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to present a two-day South West Indian Ocean (SWIO) regional
April 2025 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) and Jean-Louis Rabe (MCS Expert) travelled to Diégo-Suarez/Antsiranana, one of Madagascar’s six designated ports under the PSMA, for an initial
March 2025 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Johannesburg for the second Board of Directors meeting of the Fisheries Monitoring Control and Surveillance Coordination Centre
February 2025 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Malawi for a training focused on MCS in inland fisheries. This training, which took place over five
January 2025 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Seychelles for an initial risk assessment training as part of the project Oceans Vigilance. They were joined
December 2024 – Sandy Davies, Senior Fisheries and Environment Director, participated in the two-day Advisory and Consulting Committee sessions, followed by the 15th Conference of Ministers in Monrovia, Liberia. During the conference, Sandy presented
November 2024 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Tema, Ghana for a workshop aimed at continuing developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the conduct of
October 2024 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Noa Senete (MCS Expert) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Angola for a third in-person training of MCS officers from Luanda as part
September 2024 – Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director) travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa, together with the Regional Technical Team (RTT) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariats to join the SADC
August 2024 – Per Erik Bergh (CEO) and JD Kotze (Expert) provided training support for workshops on risk assessment in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The workshop was offered in conjunction with the
July 2024 – Sandy Davies (Technical Director) and Maya Bergh (Intern) attended the 36th Committee on Fisheries (COFI). There were various states, IGOs, and NGOs present representing a global forum to consider the issues
June 2024 – JD Kotze (Expert) and Noa Senete (Consultant) provided a three-day training workshop on Risk Assessment in Luanda, Angola. The training provided information and training in respect to the policy, legal frameworks,
April 2024 – Sandy Davies (Technical Director) and Maya Bergh (Intern) attended the 9th Our Ocean Conference (OOC) representing Stop Illegal Fishing (SIF). There were various stakeholders present, including the Malagasy Minister of Fisheries and
March 2024 – Sandy Davies (Technical Director) attended the 41st meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Technical Committee on Fisheries which took place on 26 to 27 March 2023 in Johannesburg, South
March 2024 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Sandy Davies (Technical Director), JD Kotze (Investigator) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Namibia for a second capacity-building workshop with Namibian MCS officers
March 2024 – Per Erik Bergh (CEO) attended the SADC Regional Technical Team (RTT) for the SADC Regional Fisheries Monitoring Control and Surveillance Coordination Centre (MCSCC) which took place in Mbabane, Kingdom of ESwatini
February 2024 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), JD Kotze (Investigator) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Angola as part of a delegation representing the project SADC Atlantic to launch the
January-February 2024 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), JD Kotze (Investigator) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Durban, South Africa, together with the Interim Project Management Unit (IPMU) of the SADC
December 2023 – Sandy Davies (Technical Director), travelled to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, on the 11 – 12 December 2023 to attend the fifteenth Task Force meeting in her capacity as a Stop Illegal Fishing
December 2023-Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Sandy Davies (Technical Director), Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert), JD Kotze (Investigator) and Malebogo Seofeleng (Project Administrator) travelled to Cape Town, South Africa, for the inaugural meeting
October 2023 – Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), JD Kotze (Investigator) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Tema, Ghana to run a training workshop for the West Africa Force (WATF) of
July 2023 – Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), JD Kotze (Investigator) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Cape Town, South Africa, together with the Interim Project Management Unit (IPMU) of the
June 2023 – Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) attended the FCWC West Africa Task Force’s (WATF’s) Fourteenth Task Force meeting which took place in Lomé, Togo from the 7 – 9 June 2023. NFDS has
June 2023 – Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Sandy Davies (Fisheries Expert), Malebogo Seofeleng (Project Administrator) and Regina Dithapo (Communications Assistant) welcomed Trygg Matt Tracking (TMT) and the SADC MCSCC’s IPMU members
July 2023 – Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Sandy Davies (Technical Director) attended the 7th Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop (GFETW) was hosted by the IMCS Network in partnership with Fisheries and
June 2023 – Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), Sandy Davies (Technical Director) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Antananarivo, Madagascar on the 1- 2 June 2023 to facilitate a national workshop
May 2023 – Per Erik Bergh (CEO and Managing Director), JD Kotze (Investigator) and Andréa Durighello (Fisheries Expert) travelled to Lüderitz and Walvis Bay, Namibia; together with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat
