New Partnership to Stop Illegal Fishing in West Africa
April 2015 - Sandy Davies (NFDS Technical Director) and Mark Ssemkula (Project Officer) were in Accra, Ghana for the initial meeting of the Norwegian Development Agency (Norad) funded 3 year project to support the Fisheries Intelligence and MCS support in West Africa initiative. The project brings together the six member countries of the Fisheries Committee of the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) in a new regional partnership to cooperate in fisheries management and particularly stopping illegal fishing.
The agreed next steps are to conduct regional training and develop national focus groups prior to the full launch of the Task Force at the Ministers meeting for the FCWC in December 2015.
The Coordination Team of the project comprises of the FCWC secretariat, Trygg Mat Tracking, Stop Illegal Fishing and NFDS.
April 2015 - Sandy Davies (NFDS Technical Director) and Mark Ssemakula (Project Officer) were in Accra, Ghana for the initial meeting of the Norwegian Development Agency (Norad) funded 3 year project to support the Fisheries Intelligence and MCS support in West Africa initiative. The project brings together the six member countries of the Fisheries Committee of the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) in a new regional partnership to cooperate in fisheries management and particularly stopping illegal fishing.
The agreed next steps are to conduct regional training and develop national focus groups prior to the full launch of the Task Force at the Ministers meeting for the FCWC in December 2015.
The Coordination Team of the project comprises of the FCWC secretariat, Trygg Mat Tracking, Stop Illegal Fishing and NFDS.
