ADF STAFF For three decades, foreign vessels have targeted Sierra Leone’s waters for sardines, shrimp, bonga shad and grouper, much…
Browsing: Illegal Fishing
ADF STAFF China’s distant-water fishing fleet (DWF) has targeted Gulf of Guinea waters in West and Central Africa for decades.…
ADF STAFF Rampant overfishing, driven by the demands of the global fishmeal and fish oil industry, is leading to food…
ADF STAFF Under overcast skies, Ghanaian fishermen in a wooden canoe strained to haul in their fishing nets through choppy…
ADF STAFF Illegal fishing by large industrial trawlers in Ghana has decimated fish stocks to the brink of collapse and…
ADF STAFF Members of the Seychelles People’s Defence Force Tazar Special Forces boarded a ship, single file, with their guns…
ADF STAFF A three-month investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has found that 90% of fishing vessels operating in…
ADF STAFF West African officials are saying that the scourge of illegal fishing can only be addressed with a regionally…
ADF STAFF Benin, Ghana and Togo have signed a pact to work together to reduce illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU)…
ADF STAFF To prevent further decline of fish stocks in the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana recently urged neighboring countries to…