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 29/06/2022
MAST’s weekly security report issue 338 is available to read now. In Maritime news, in the Gulf of Guinea, the Nigerian Navy and NSCDC have