maritime

ADF STAFF Boaventura Martins has been fishing off the island of Maio for 40 years. Maio is part of the Cabo Verde archipelago, a group islands 620 kilometers off Africa’s west coast, where the waters once teemed with sharks, whales,…

ADF STAFF A huge net swings across an industrial fishing trawler in Ghana. It opens, and the deck fills with a pile of glistening, silver-scaled fish. The ship’s double-net system, which helps catch larger amounts of smaller fish,…

ADF STAFF Ghana’s Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development announced plans in mid-September to review licensing loopholes that allow foreign fishing companies to operate illegally, often by establishing shell companies that…