Gambia is negotiating deals with three private companies to crack down on rampant illegal fishing in its territorial waters, a senior official with the fisheries ministry said.
Made possible by poor monitoring capacity and, in some cases, corrupt local officials, illegal fishing costs West Africa’s coastal nations around $2.3 billion a year, according to a recent study.
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Weekly Security and Risk Report 22/09/2021
MAST’s weekly security report issue 299 is available to read now. More oil thieves have been arrested by the Nigerian Navy in the past week,
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