ADF STAFF Public sentiment against a planned $55 million industrial fishing harbor at Sierra Leone’s tourist-friendly Black Johnson Beach continues…
Browsing: Illegal Fishing
ADF STAFF Emmanuel Essien, a 28-year-old Ghanaian fisheries observer, was proud of his work, which included reporting illegal fishing tactics…
ADF STAFF China commands the world’s largest distant-water fishing fleet (DWF), has the world’s worst illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU)…
ADF STAFF Coastal states are sounding the alarm that a lack of resources to patrol waters, combined with limited surveillance…
ADF STAFF Benin became the first African nation to commit to publicly share data about fishing vessels in its waters…
ADF STAFF Madagascar recently signed a charter allowing it to join a Southern African Development Community (SADC) initiative aimed at combatting…
ADF STAFF As a Ghanaian Air Force helicopter thundered overhead, members of the Ghana Navy Special Boat Squadron (SBS) rappelled…
ADF STAFF At least 26 coastal African nations are known to have recently operated open vessel registries or allowed foreign-owned…
ADF STAFF Brando Brayend Tewuh, a 29-year-old Indonesian crew member aboard a Chinese fishing vessel, was so tired of being…
ADF STAFF A new study identifies West Africa as one of the world’s most affected regions by labor abuse on…