by FISH-i | Apr 9, 2018 | Fish i News
The eight member countries of the FISH-i Africa Task Force have once again closed ranks and forced a known IUU fishing vessel to flee the region. STS-50 called in port in Madagascar in February 2018 where inspectors identified that it was in fact the IUU listed vessel...
by FISH-i | Mar 19, 2018 | Fish i News
FISH-i Africa participated in a stakeholder’s consultative workshop for the validation of the Framework for Institutional Collaboration on Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) in the South West Indian Ocean (SWIO), held in Gaborone, Botswana from the 7th – 9th...
by FISH-i | Mar 14, 2018 | Fish i News
A High Level Symposium on Capacity Building for Maritime Security, organised by the SafeSeas initiative, was held in Nairobi, Kenya on the 2nd March. The discussion included questions on why maritime security matters, the best means of building regional maritime...
by FISH-i | Feb 20, 2018 | Fish i News
Twenty-two crewmembers are currently being held in the Maldives awaiting repatriation to Thailand, following the detention of the Thai-owned trawlers CHOTPATTANA 51 and CHOTPATTANA 55 by authorities in the Maldives. The vessels were part of a group of Thai-owned,...
by FISH-i | Feb 16, 2018 | Fish i News
FISH-i Africa support of Operation Jodari, a partnership between Tanzanian authorities and international conservation organisation Sea Shepherd, has revealed the appalling treatment of crews aboard fishing vessels in the Western Indian Ocean. The Ocean Warrior, Sea...
by FISH-i | Feb 15, 2018 | Fish i News
Patrols conducted under Operation Jodari, a partnership between Tanzania’s Multi-Agency Task Team, Sea Shepherd and FISH-i Africa, in January and February 2018, and the Indian Ocean Commission Programme Régional de Surveillance des Pêches (IOC-PRSP) in late 2017 have...
by FISH-i | Feb 5, 2018 | Fish i News
A joint operation between Tanzanian authorities, international conservation organisation Sea Shepherd and the FISH-i Africa Task Force has undertaken a three-week at-sea patrol targeting fishing vessels active in Tanzania’s national waters. ‘Operation Jodari’ has...
by FISH-i | Jan 22, 2018 | Fish i News
The agent of HUIHANG 68 (ex. GREKO 2) Issa Haji Salum, Director of Lucky Shipping and Fisheries Agency and Abdullah Issa Hanga, Director with Saha Company Limited appeared in court in Dar es Salaam this week charged with organised crime offences and misuse of the...
by FISH-i | Jan 19, 2018 | Fish i News
Following recent arrests of Tanzanian-flagged vessels involved in the smuggling of drugs and explosive materials, authorities have acted to suspend the operations of the Zanzibar Maritime Authority (ZMA) and have announced a thorough review of all vessels operating...
by FISH-i | Jan 29, 2018 | Fish i News
A new report from the FISH-i Africa Task Force, ‘The Potential Use of AIS as a Fisheries Monitoring Tool’ examines the value of using automatic identification system (AIS) as part of monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) operations. AISs are very high frequency...
