Illegal Fishing

ADF STAFF South Africa’s Navy, once the continent’s most powerful, is now struggling after years of financial belt-tightening forced it to forego needed maintenance and recruitment. The Navy’s recorded sea hours have dropped by more than…

ADF STAFF The Gambia is increasing its efforts to battle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, which has plagued West Africa for decades. In August, Gambian authorities and representatives from the United Nations’…

ADF STAFF Sun glinted off the waters of Lake Victoria in Kisumu, Kenya’s third-largest city. Victor Ndonga was among the throngs of fishermen who prepared their artisanal canoes for a day on the water. Speaking to The Associated…

ADF STAFF Sea crimes are a constant threat to coastal countries. Pirate attacks are increasing off the coast of Somalia. The Gulf of Guinea remains the world’s epicenter of illegal fishing. Other crimes, including oil theft, drug…

ADF STAFF Kenya has reaffirmed its commitment to help prosecute suspected pirates and other sea criminals amid roiling insecurity sparked by a recent surge in Somali pirate attacks and Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Kenya will prosecute pirates…

ADF STAFF Souleymane Faye, a retired Senegalese fisherman, watched with dismay as a group of sea-weary artisanal fishermen hauled their colorful canoes ashore in Bargny, about 15 kilometers east of Dakar. “Look, they’ve just arrived,”…

ADF STAFF Fishermen near Benguela, Angola, pulled their artisanal canoes from the sun-splashed surf as fish sellers walked along the beach with baskets on their heads. Neither the canoes nor the baskets were brimming with fish. “It…

ADF STAFF Chinese trawlers frequently fish illegally throughout the southwest Indian Ocean and their captains and crews routinely abuse foreign workers on board. New details about what goes on aboard the trawlers were revealed in a…

ADF STAFF Sweat beaded on George Kowukumeh’s forehead as he strained to pull a fishing net ashore in Accra, Ghana. A longtime fisherman, Kowukumeh was dismayed with his haul. He has felt the emotion often in recent years, as total…

ADF STAFF Piracy is making a resurgence in the western Indian Ocean, and the region is rife with other sea crimes such as illegal fishing, drug smuggling, and human and weapons trafficking. Against that backdrop, the second edition of…