November 2021 — Per Erik Bergh (CEO), JD Kotze (Expert Investigator), Malebogo Seofeleng (Projects Administrator) and Alexander Ben Embarek (Junior Intergovernmental Fisheries Officer) all participated in the three-day interagency meeting in Madagascar, ‘On Harmonising Implementation of Tools for Port State Measures, Safety and Labour – Towards a Blue Economy’.
The meeting was organised by Stop Illegal Fishing and included presentations by representatives from three United Nations agencies highlighted the common agendas and tools that will help deliver safer fishing vessels, decent working conditions and legally caught fish. In recent years the membership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) have developed a framework of international instruments to use ports to block illegally caught fish from being landed, to reduce the number of accidents and fatalities and to improve safety and working and living conditions in the fisheries sector.
