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Mozambique to track illegal fishing vessels – BBC
10:11 CAT | 07 Mar 2017
AFP (File photo) / Mozambique is famous for its seafood
A body to track illegal fishing vessels off the east and southern coasts of Africa is to be set up in Mozambique.
It is estimated that Mozambique alone loses about $67m (£55m) annually to illegal fishing.
Leonildo Chimarizene, a top official in Mozambique’s fisheries ministry, said the centre would be based in the capital, Maputo, with the aim of improving co-operation among member states of the regional body, Sadc.
“Under the project, if a suspected fishing boat is spotted in a given territorial water, the centre will act to alert and communicate that an illegal fishing boat is in Mozambican, South African or Tanzanian territorial waters.
An inspection team will, then, be dispatched to the area in question to intercept the vessel.
This work will be done by experts on monitoring, controlling and inspecting.
The centre will also have a training component.”
Leonildo Chimarizene
Source: BBC
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