In Mauritania, artisanal fisheries organisations and civil society are frustrated by their government's passivity regarding the use of overfished sardinella and other small pelagic fish fit for consumption by meal factories.
Bilbao, rapporteur of the EU-Gabon SFPA: "The Commission should publish the plans and objectives achieved with the sectoral support of agreements with third countries"
Does the fish belong to the one who catches it?
Malagasy civil society speaks out on the eve of the next round of negotiations on the Fisheries Agreement with the EU
Gabon-EU SFPA: MEPs call for more transparency on the use of sectoral funds and for precautionary approach regarding deep-sea shrimp fishery
The Gambia-EU SFPA: transparency is necessary to make the fight against IUU efficient
Spending the night in the open : The Kouléwondy community continues to use the destroyed fish landing site
Affordable social housing to improve the living conditions of women fish processors in Côte d'Ivoire
Control regulation: More transparency needed to oversee EU external fishing fleets
CAOPA calls for a more sustainable and transparent framework for fishing joint ventures in Africa
EU-Senegal Fisheries Agreement: asking “the right questions”
Has the European Parliament listened to the Seychelles artisanal fishers concerns?
During the SFPA negotiations, the local artisanal fishing organisation SFBOA, highlighted its priorities: the EU-Seychelles agreement should (i) contribute to reducing the pressure on tuna resources and on the environment; (ii) ensure transparency and more participation of the fisheries stakeholders and local communities, and (iii) use sectoral support funds primarily for the management of fisheries, and for the improvement of living and working conditions in the local fishing sector.
USCOFEP-CI's refrigerated container guarantees a continuous supply of fish to Abdijan
Mauritania pledged to eliminate fishmeal production by 2020. Today, it has tripled
Concrete measures to improve working conditions in small-scale fisheries in Senegal
“A vibrant call to protect and promote African local artisanal fisheries” ahead of the EU-Africa Summit
At a webinar jointly organized by the FAO and the German Presidency and hosted by Members of the European Parliament, CFFA partner CAOPA calls on EU and AU, their members and their citizens to work together to implement, through transparent, participatory and gender-sensitive national action plans to implement the FAO Voluntary Small scale Fisheries Guidelines.
The cooperative of women fish processors in Côte d'Ivoire inaugurates a refrigerated container in San Pedro
"This is the first time fishing communities are seeing a concrete positive impact of the agreement with the European Union"
Through a fund set up under the EU-Côte d'Ivoire SFPA, the women fish processor cooperative purchased a refrigerated container and placed it in San Pedro, a fish-producing area in the west of the country, which lacked conservation facilities and where large quantities of artisanal fisheries landings were lost as a result.
EU-Seychelles SFPA: The PECH rapporteur calls for more transparency and participation of the local fisheries sector
Hard hit by the Covid-19 crisis, Ivorian women in artisanal fisheries also see it as an opportunity to address long postponed issues
After weeks of meetings with national authorities and partners, USCOFEP-CI suggests a plan to improve living and working conditions for women fish processors, and asks for some of the EU Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) sectoral support funds to be redirected to the fight against Covid-19.