March 2018 — Per Erik Bergh (Managing Director) and Sally Frankcom (Communications Officer) attended the SafeSeas High Level Symposium on Capacity Building for Maritime Security in Nairobi, Kenya.
The event brought together regional and international experts on maritime security to discuss the importance of capacity building and the practical challenges posed by illegal fishing, fisheries crime and maritime domain awareness. Mr Bergh presented the FISH-i Africa Task Force model of information sharing and cooperation and detailed recent cases to highlight the links between illegalities in the fisheries sector and transnational organized crime.
The future of international maritime security engagement in the Western Indian Ocean region was addressed in the final session.
