14 West African Country including Nigeria have met to brainstorm and
tackle illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU)fishing activities
while and ensure safety at sea.
The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development (FMARD), Architect Sonny Echono stated this in Abuja on
Tuesday at the Opening Ceremony of the “2nd Regional Steering Committee
Meeting of ECOWAS Marine THEMA Monitoring for Environment and Security
in Africa (MESA) with the Theme “Enhancing the Use of Earth Observation
to support Fisheries Management and Safety at Sea in Western Africa”
The Permanent Secretary who was represented by the Ministry’s
Director of Fisheries, Aderemi Abioye said” The partnership through the
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was to build
platforms for collaborations and partnerships with other African
Countries in the West African regions to harmonise our regulations and
monitor the operations of fishing vessels across the Region”
He added that as part of efforts to meet the nations fish demands
“the federal ministry of agriculture is promoting aqua -culture,
accommodating new investment in fish production( using different
technologies) encouraging and empowering artisanal fishermen to be
able to produce fish from rivers, lagoons lakes and all inland waters in
the country”.
Architect Echono maintained that “ECOWAS is helping us to use Earth
Observation Data (EOD) to be able to monitor marine waters and provide
security fishing vessels and their operators and also ensure the
protection of the environment in the Coastal waters of Nigeria and West
Africa”
Speaking on the challenges of fishery in Nigeria , he said “fishery
which formed about 4% of total GDP was challenged by the cost of oil
bunkering, operation costs of vessels, piracy”, further assuring that
the department in collaboration with security agencies was working to
ensure safety of fishing vessels across the waterways”
Also speaking in his keynote address Provost, University of Ghana
Prof. Ebenezer Owusu said “the goal of the workshop is to help curb
illegal unregulated and unreported fishing activities using satellite
imagery as global losses due to IUU or pirate fishing which are
estimated to be between USD $10b and US $23.5b annually”
He revealed that “West Africa waters are estimated to have the
highest levels of IUU fishing in the World, representing up to 37% of
the regions catch. Adding that in addition to economic losses pirate
fishing in West Africa severely compromises the food security and
livelihoods of coastal communities”
ECOWAS Commissioner for Agriculture, Environment and Water Resources,
Dr Lapodini Atouga , Represented by the Director Environment Dr Johnson
Boanuh in his welcome address said the project has a 4 year life span
of which a year had been expended.
He charged participants to constantly keep in view the global
objective of the project which is to increase information management,
decision making and planning capacity for coastal and marine resources
management, by enhancing access to and exploitation of relevant EO data.
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