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Study examines how to build resilient aquatic food systems amid COVID-19

June 1, 2021 โ€” A new study has investigated the details of how the outbreak and spread of COVID-19 impacted the availability and supply of seafood, with fish-producing countries in Asia and Africa reporting huge disruptions of their aquatic food value chain in 2020.

With nearly every fish-producing country in the world reeling from the effects of COVID-19 on production, processing, and supply of aquatic food products, the study identifies short- and long-term policy responses that are likely to shape the seafood market trends in Egypt, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar โ€“ with spillover effects to global availability and pricing of seafood products.

Read the full story at Seafood Source

Aquaculture can create 100m jobs in West Africa

July 6, 2017 โ€” Developing a framework on fisheries and aquaculture for the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) could create over 100 million jobs, Stefania Marrone, the head of the EU delegation to Nigeria and Ecowasโ€™s regional cooperation section, has said.

Representatives of Ecowas, the EU and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) are currently meeting in Abuja to develop a framework on fisheries and aquaculture for the Ecowas area, reports PM News Nigeria.

The sectors play an important role in food and nutrition security in West Africa, with fish being the only animal protein affordable for most households, according to Marrone.

The sector has estimated annual catch of 2.8 million metric tons with commercial values at $3 billion and job creation for over 100 million people in fishing, aquaculture operations, processing and ancillary industries, Marrone said.

Marrone pointed out that in spite the importance, the sector has not been fully integrated into the priorities of the national and regional agricultural development within the Ecowas zone.

She said to improve the situation, there is need to develop a regional fishery and aquaculture policy to address food and nutritional security in the region.

The EU official said that nutrition policy on fisheries and aquaculture represented an untapped opportunity that must be explored to ensure sustainable healthy diets.

Read the full story at Undercurrent News

A RENEGADE TRAWLER, HUNTED FOR 10,000 MILES BY VIGILANTES

July 28, 2015 โ€” Aboard the Bob Barker, in the South Atlantic โ€” As the Thunder, a trawler considered the worldโ€™s most notorious fish poacher, began sliding under the sea a couple of hundred miles south of Nigeria, three men scrambled aboard to gather evidence of its crimes.

In bumpy footage from their helmet cameras, they can be seen grabbing everything they can over the next 37 minutes โ€” the captainโ€™s logbooks, a laptop computer, charts and a slippery 200-pound fish. The video shows the fishing hold about a quarter full with catch and the Thunderโ€™s engine room almost submerged in murky water. โ€œThere is no way to stop it sinking,โ€ the men radioed back to the Bob Barker, which was waiting nearby. Soon after they climbed off, the Thunder vanished below.

It was an unexpected end to an extraordinary chase. For 110 days and more than 10,000 nautical miles across two seas and three oceans, the Bob Barker and a companion ship, both operated by the environmental organization Sea Shepherd, had trailed the trawler, with the three captains close enough to watch one anotherโ€™s cigarette breaks and on-deck workout routines. In an epic game of cat-and-mouse, the ships maneuvered through an obstacle course of giant ice floes, endured a cyclone-like storm, faced clashes between opposing crews and nearly collided in what became the longest pursuit of an illegal fishing vessel in history.

Industrial-scale violators of fishing bans and protected areas are a main reason more than half of the worldโ€™s major fishing grounds have been depleted and by some estimates over 90 percent of the oceanโ€™s large fish like marlin, tuna and swordfish have vanished. Interpol had issued a Purple Notice on the Thunder (the equivalent of adding it to a Most Wanted List, a status reserved for only four other ships in the world), but no government had been willing to dedicate the personnel and millions of dollars needed to go after it.

So Sea Shepherd did instead, stalking the fugitive 202-foot steel-sided ship from a desolate patch of ocean at the bottom of the Earth, deep in Antarctic waters, to any ports it neared, where its crews could alert the authorities. โ€œThe poachers thrive by staying in the shadows,โ€ Peter Hammarstedt, captain of the Barker, said while trying to level his ship through battering waves. โ€œOur plan was to put a spotlight on them that they couldnโ€™t escape.โ€

Read the full story at The New York Times 

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