Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud recently published an op-ed crediting the Secure Fisheries report, Securing Somali Fisheries, with highlighting the extent of foreign fishing in Somalia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) foreign fishing has not only deprived Somalia of desperately needed revenue, but has also harmed their marine environment through overfishing valuable species.
The CNH program supports research on interactions between humans and the environment, viewing them one as one interconnected system. The grant investigates the dynamic links between the ecology of Lake Victoria in East Africa (a natural system), the economy of its surrounding fisheries (a human syst...
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Robert Mazurek, director of the Secure Fisheries agency, told Al Jazeera "the international community has done very little to combat [illegal] fishing in Somali waters".
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Securing Somali Fisheries is a comprehensive assessment of the domestic fisheries in the Somali region, the amount of foreign fishing in Somali waters, and the sustainability and economic conditions of those fisheries.