News Archive

• Initial training of Angolan MCS officers under the SADC Atlantic project

  28 Feb 2024

• SADC meetings to kick start the MCSCC Centre

  24 June 2024

• Sixteenth meeting of the West Africa Task Force

  15 June 2024

• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) workshop at Ghana

  22 May 2024

• Risk Assessment training provided in Angola

  12 June 2024

• President of the Republic of Mozambique oversees the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the SADC’s new MCS Centre.

  23 April 2024

• NFDS supports South Africa workshop on legal, safe and fair fisheries

  20 April 2024

• SADC Technical Committee on Fisheries held 41st Meeting.

  30 March 2024

• 16th Meeting of the SADC RTT in the Kingdom of Eswatini

  8 March 2024

• Risk Assessment training organised in Durban with multi-agency participation

  02 February 2024

• The Fifteen FCWC West Africa task force.

  11-12 December 2023

• First meeting of the SADC MCSCC Task Force takes place in Cape Town

  10 December 2023

• NFDS active in Ghana and West Africa Task Force.

  23 October 2023

• 7th Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop

  04 August 2023

• South Africa’s fisheries compliance officers strengthen their capacities to address IUU fishing risks

  3 - 7 July 2023

• 14th Regional Meeting of the FCWC West Africa Task Force

  7 - 9 June 2023

• Project plan with TMT AND MCSCC’s IPMU

  24 - 28 June 2023

• Madagascar hosts a national workshop to prepare an interagency mechanism for the implementation of the PSMA.

  1 - 2 June 2023

• SADC Atlantic Namibia: Risk assessment training workshop

  8 - 12 May 2023

• Fortieth Meeting of the SADC Technical Committee on Fisheries.

  29 - 31 March 2023

• Namibia sets the framework of cooperation for the SADC Atlantic project.

  13 - 16 March 2023

• South Africa defines priority needs to step up regional engagement to stop IUU fishing.

  21 - 23 February 2023

• Port State measures training provided in Angola

  13 - 17 February 2023

• FCWC 14th Session of the Conference of Ministers – fisheries management for a sustainable blue economy

  11 - 13 January 2023

• Madagascar updates national strategy to implement PSMA and related instruments

  5 – 7 December 2022

• 12th Meeting of the SADC RTT in the Seychelles

  12 - 15 December 2022

• Tenth meeting of the SADC IUU Task Force and WWF Training Workshop

  14 - 18 November 2022

• Thirteenth meeting of the West Africa Task Force

  8 - 10 November 2022

• FishFORCE National port State measures interagency workshop, Namibia

  30 October - 10 November 2022

• Supporting effective PSMA implementation in Africa – Kenya

  1 - 3 November 2022

• IOTC Training for Evidence Collection

  13 - 15 September 2022

• Port State Measures Workshop Held in Kenya

  13 May 2022

• Port State Measures Workshop Held in Mozambique

  29 April 2022

• Port State measures training provided in Tanzania

  25 March 2022

• Challenges for MCS in the Western African Region

  24 November 2021

• Eleventh meeting of the West Africa Task Force

  30 November 2021

• Madagascar Advances Interagency Cooperation to Develop Legal, Safe And Fair Fisheries

  08 November 2021

• Ninth meeting of the SADC IUU Task Force

  17 November 2021

• Tenth meeting of the West Africa Task Force celebrates progress to end illegal fishing

  25 September 2021

• New report: Regional Cooperation to Stop Illegal Fishing

  14 July 2021

• Fourth meeting of the Ports Task Force Ghana

  20 April 2021

• Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and Indian Ocean (EA-SA-IO) regional IUU meetings

  02 November 2020

• New report launched — Moving Tuna: Transhipment in the Western Indian Ocean

  23 September 2020

• Connections between corruption and IUU fishing

  28 August 2020

• Corruption and fisheries webinar

  14 June 2020

• Sixth Meeting of SADC Regional Technical Team for the Regional Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Coordination Centre

  28 May 2020

• 5th Meeting of the SADC Regional Technical Team for the SADC Fisheries Monitoring Control and Surveillance Coordination Centre

  15 March 2020

• FishFORCE Dialogue 2020

  12 March 2020

• Risk assessment training for the West Africa Task Force

  24 February 2020

• Second meeting of the Ports Task Force Ghana

  27 February 2020

• Côte d’Ivoire: interagency meeting focus on PSMA

  28 February 2020

• Madagascar develops interagency cooperation for PSMA implementation

  30 January 2020

• 2019 FCWC Conference of Ministers

  17 December 2019

• SADC holds dialogue meeting with international cooperating partners

  18 December 2019

• Port State Measures Agreement under discussion at Nigerian interagency meeting

  8 November 2019

• Port State Measures to Stop Illegal Fishing supports FAO workshop in Madagascar

  30 November 2018

• Operationalisation of SADC Regional Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Coordination Centre marks progress in the fight against illegal fishing

  31 October 2019

• IMO 2019 Ministerial Conference on Fishing Vessel Safety and IUU Fishing

  30 October 2019

• SADC Regional Capacity Development Workshop on Transparency in Fisheries Governance

  16 September 2019

• Ninth meeting of the West Africa Task Force

  29 September 2019

• Port State Measures to Stop Illegal Fishing capacity needs assessment: Madagascar

  30 September 2019

• Second Meeting of the SADC Technical Team on the Fisheries Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Coordination Centre

  26 July 2019

• National Interagency MCS Working Group meets in Ghana

  14 June 2019

• Mozambique’s ‘Growing Blue’ conference addresses maritime security and sustainability

  26 May 2019

• FISH-i Africa Task Force meets in Mozambique

  26 May 2019

• Liberian agencies cooperate to stop illegal fishing

  25 March 2019

• Eighth meeting of the West Africa Task Force

  25 May 2019

• 37th Meeting of the Southern African Development Community Technical Committee on Fisheries

  18 March 2019

• Blue Oceans Conference In Liberia

  20 March 2019

• High-Level Side Event on Corruption and the Illicit Exploitation and Trade of Africa’s Natural Resources

  8 February 2019

• 6th Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop

  29 February 2019

• MCS support to Tanzania

  01 March 2019

• MCS and compliance with the Conservation and Management Measures of the SEAFO and SIOFA

  2 January 2019

• Strategic Environmental Assessments for the EEZ presented in Tanzania

  8 November 2018

• Eleventh FCWC Ministers Conference strengthens regional fisheries cooperation

  30 November 2018

• SADC capacity development workshop on catch documentation schemes

  19 November 2018

• Seventh meeting of the West Africa Task Force

  12 November 2018

• Sustainable Blue Economy Conference, Kenya

  29 November 2018

• Regional Training Workshop on Electronic Technologies used for Fisheries Management

  8 September 2018

• Working Party on Collaboration and Cooperation in Tuna Fisheries

  22 September 2018

• Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping workshop held for Tanzania

  30 August 2018

• NFDS provides fisheries awareness training to strengthen maritime safety and security in the Indian Ocean region

  22 July 2018

• The 33rd Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI)

  11 July 2018

• Sixth meeting of the West Africa Task Force

  08 June 2018

• Seventh meeting of the FISH-i Africa Task Force

  28 June 2018

• Fisheries legislative framework consultation in Tanzania

  19 June 2018

• CRIMARIO training focuses on fisheries

  1 May 2018

• Nigerian agencies cooperate to stop illegal fishing

  9 May 2018

• 11th International Forum on IUU fishing

  3 May 2018

• Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability EU/Africa DataLab

  21 March 2018

• Institutional Collaboration on MCS in the South West Indian Ocean

  9 March 2018

• SafeSeas High Level Symposium on Capacity Building for Maritime Security

  2 March 2018

• Tenth FCWC Ministers Conference results in agreements on information sharing and transhipment

  4 January 2018

• Protecting the ‘Blue Gold’ of the Seychelles

  8 December 2017

• SADC Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Coordination Centre under discussion

  30 November 2017

• Regional minimum terms and conditions for fisheries access arrangements meeting

  30 November 2017

• Fifth West Africa Task Force meeting strengthens regional collaboration to stop illegal fishing

  9 November 2017

• Opportunities for tackling safety at sea through the Cape Town Agreement discussed at IMO workshop

  16 October 2017

• European Union host Our Ocean 2017

  08 October 2017

• Zanzibar hosts Port State measures Agreement (PSMA) stakeholders consultation

  26 October 2017

• South West Indian Ocean Commission moves on Minimum Terms and Conditions

  15 September 2017

• New report launched — FISH-i Africa: Our future

  27 September 2017

• Third International Symposium on FishCRIME held in Vienna

  30 September 2017

• FISH-i model of cooperation presented at ACP meeting

  27 September 2017

• New report links illegal fishing to security concerns

  17 July 2017

• Sixth FISH-i Africa Task Force meeting

  30 June 2017

• FISH-i Africa Wins 2017 Seafood Champion Award

  07 June 2017

• Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs hold Environment, Science, Technology and Health Workshop

  08 June 2017

• Connecting Maritime Safety, Security, and Fisheries

  13 June 2017

• New West Africa Task Force report launched

  12 June 2017

• SeaWeb Seafood Summit 2017

  09 June 2017

• FISH-i Africa participate in The Safe Ocean Network meeting

  18 June 2017

• Nigeria National Working Group of the West Africa Task Force established

  28 May 2017

• Nigeria hosts fourth West Africa Task Force Meeting

  28 May 2017

• 10th International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing at Chatham House

  17 March 2017

• First Meeting of the WECAFC Regional Working Group on IUU Fishing

  1 March 2017

• 9th International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing at Chatham House

• ATLAFCO PSMA workshop held in Tangiers

  1 January 2017

• FishFORCE collaborate to create Fisheries Crime Law Enforcement Academy in Kenya

  30 November 2016

• Stop Illegal Fishing founder, Per Erik Bergh, receives Royal Norwegian Order of Merit

  30 November 2016

• NOAA training for the FISH-i Africa Task Force

  11 October 2016

• FISH-i Africa assists Somali authorities inspect suspected illegal fishing vessel, Greko 1

  12 October 2016

• West Africa Task Force meets in Benin

  24 October 2016

• The 32nd Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI)

  17 July 2016

• NOAA training for the West Africa Task Force

  13 September 2016

• 35th Meeting of the SADC Technical Committee on Fisheries

  9 June 2016

• FISH-i Africa are a Blue Solution

  7 June 2016

• Fifth meeting of the FISH-i Africa Task Force

  17 June 2016

• Fourth Meeting of the SADC Task Force on IUU Fishing

  9 May 2016

• EatFish Consumption Surveys in Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia

  22 April 2016

• West Africa Task Force meets in Ghana

  15 April 2016

• Evaluation of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the EU and Mauritius

  22 March 2016

• Fisheries in food and nutrition security in the SADC region

  21 March 2016

• Fifth Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop

  15 March 2016

• Kenya fisheries risk assessment

  11 March 2016

• 9th International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing at Chatham House

  18 February 2016

• Expert Group Meeting on Fisheries Crime

  04 March 2016

• West Africa Task Force meets at AU/ECOWAS Workshop on IUU Fishing in West Africa

  26 February 2016

• Stop Illegal Fishing awarded the Margarita Lizárraga Medal

• FISH-i Africa Task Force meets

  4 December 2015

• Stop Illegal Fishing awarded the Margarita Lizárraga Medal

  1 December 2015

• Indian Ocean Forum on Maritime Crime meet to discuss crimes in fisheries

  22 October 2015

• First International Symposium on FishCRIME co-organised by Stop Illegal Fishing

  13 October 2015

• South West Indian Ocean regional workshop on minimum terms and conditions for foreign fisheries access

  30 September 2015

• First State of the Marine Environment Report for the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem 2014

  29 September 2015

• New report on certain technical rationales for permitting access to foreign fishing fleets to EEZs of Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania

  15 September 2015

• FAO Workshop on Fisheries Eco Labelling & Aquaculture Certification

  30 August 2015

• Tanzania launches Multi-Agency Task Team to fight environmental and wildlife crime

  29 June 2015

• New phase of a project to improve fish supply and consumption underway

  22 June 2015

• African Union retreat to harmonise the framework for alignment of fisheries and aquaculture

  14 June 2015

• FISH-i Africa Task Force meets in Kenya

  5 June 2015

• NFDS pays tribute to Geofrey Nanyaro

  27 May 2015

• NFDS staff member Mark Ssemakula gets married!

  14 December 2014

• African Union expert consultative meeting for fisheries and aquaculture

  26 May 2015

• Field work in Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique to identify Regional MTC for fisheries

  25 May 2015

• New Partnership to Stop Illegal Fishing in West Africa

• Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) annual Compliance Committee and Commission meeting.

  21 May 2015

• Implementing Africa’s Maritime Security Strategies - Conference Pretoria May 2015

  20 May 2015

• The SADC Action Plan on IUU Fishing adopted by the SADC Technical Committee

  30 April 2015

• Steps taken towards the agreement and eventual implementation of SWIO Regional MTCs

  30 March 2015

• NFDS welcomes back Sally Frankcom to head up the Communications team

  27 March 2015

• A new Nile perch fisheries management plan for Lake Victoria

  26 March 2015

• NFDS welcomes new Research Assistant

  1 March 2015

• NFDS and Stop Illegal Fishing start to implement the West Africa MCS Project

  28 February 2015

• NFDS joins forces with FCWC, SIF and TMT

  30 November 2014

• NFDS presents a State of the Marine Environment report

  30 Octobe 2014

• NFDS to review IOTC member State legalisation

  23 July 2014

• Stop Illegal Fishing gains prestigious award

  20 February 2014

• NFDS staff walk for charity

  29 June 2013