Secure Fisheries Leads Workshop to Implement Spiny Lobster Management Measures

Over May 15-17, 2023, Secure Fisheries’ Senior Research Associate, Paige Roberts, participated in a coral reef monitoring training workshop in Djibouti, Djibouti hosted by the Transnational Red Sea Center (TRSC).

On December 20th and 21st of 2022, the Secure Fisheries Somalia team met with the Federal Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy, including Minister Ahmed Hassan, the Director General, the ministerial technical team, and other senior bureaucrats.

The long awaited ice machine made landfall in Bander Beyla, Somalia, and on October 29 2022, Secure Fisheries field staff held an opening ceremony for the momentous occasion.

One Earth Future’s Secure Fisheries program implements a science-based approach along the Somali coastline to eliminate unmanaged competition over fisheries and reduce fisheries conflict. Research Associate Colleen Devlin attended the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association’s 12th Scientific...

Field Manager Jamal Hassan facilitated a value chain workshop in Mogadishu from August 22-24, 2022.

Puntland Field Manager Mustafe Mohamoud presented our Cold Catch project at Cold Chain conferences in Rwanda and Thailand. Installation of the project's ice making machine is expected in September, 2022.

A two-day data collection training workshop for Jubaland Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) staff was held by Secure Fisheries on July 23-24, 2022.

Colleen Devlin, Research Associate with Secure Fisheries, was the lead consultant and writer for United Nations Climate Security Mechanism report on climate change and security in the Somali Region.

In May 2022, Secure Fisheries held cooperative management (co-management) workshops in the communities of Laasqorey and Bullahar on the northern coast of the Somali Region.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports have increasingly highlighted the linkages between climate change and security.

Secure Fisheries Senior Research Associate and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) expert, Paige Roberts, conducted a guest GIS workshop for the Berbera Maritime and Fisheries Academy (BMFA) on March 20-21, 2022 on their campus in Berbera, Somaliland.