35th Meeting of the SADC Technical Committee on Fisheries

35th Meeting of the SADC Technical Committee on Fisheries

June 2016 - Sandy Davies (Technical Director) attended the 35th SADC Technical Committee on Fisheries Meeting in Gaborone, Botswana, from the 9-10 June 2016.

The 2016 SADC Technical Committee on Fisheries was organized by the SADC Secretariat in collaboration with the African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), the NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency (NPCA) and the WorldFish. 11 SADC Member States attended the meeting; Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The following development partners were represented: African Development Bank (AfDB), AU-IBAR, Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA), FAO, Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA), NPCA, South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC), Stop Illegal Fishing (SIF), WorldFish, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM). Also in attendance were experts and consultants from Botswana, South Africa and Uganda, and officials from the SADC Secretariat.

The aim of the meeting was to clear strategic documents for approval by the SADC Committee of Ministers of Environment and Natural Resources Management to take place later in the year. The meeting was also to review key SADC policy and technical documents, and to share information and decisions from the SADC Committee of Ministers of Environment and Natural Resources Management and the SADC Council of Ministers.

Sandy presented the work that the NFDS team had undertaken on food and nutrition security and the importance of fish within this in the SADC countries for CCARDESA. 

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