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[AbyssiniaLady]

October 2019, Global Fishing Watch AIS live map shows illegal fishing vessels movements and hourly activity in Somali waters.





The tip of the Horn of Africa.



UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Security Council expressed serious concern on Tuesday over reports of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Somalia's Exclusive Economic Zone, and noted that there could be a "complex relationship between IUU fishing and piracy."

Noting that IUU fishing can contribute to destabilization among coastal communities, the Security Council believed that it accounts for millions of dollars in lost revenue for Somalia each year.

UNSC unanimously adopted resolution 2442 to remain seized of the matter, and the resolution called upon all countries to criminalize piracy under their domestic law and to favorably consider the prosecution of suspected, and imprisonment of those convicted, including pirates Coastguard of Somalia apprehended off the coast of Somalia, and their facilitators and financiers ashore.

The resolution also urged Somalia's authorities to continue their work to pass a comprehensive set of antipiracy and maritime laws without further delay and establish security forces with clear roles and jurisdictions to enforce these laws.

Somalia's Exclusive Economic Zone.



http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-1 ... 587023.htm

[Zmeselo]

Plundering-cave dwelling- barbarians!

[AbyssiniaLady]

Europeans thieves.

Critics also argue that the EU uses its leverage as an aid donor, implicitly threatening to withdraw aid if Madagascar does not go along with its fisheries terms. EU officials said that this isn’t the case. “The EU has never put in the balance the overall aid and the fisheries deal,” Hervé Delsol, head of fisheries for the EU delegation in the nearby island of Mauritius, who’s worked on the current Madagascar negotiations, told Mongabay in an email.

poor malagasy.


Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing

Two months ago, a little-known private Malagasy association signed a 10-year, $2.7 billion fishing deal — the largest in the country’s history — with a group of Chinese companies that plans to send 330 fishing vessels to Madagascar.

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/local ... se-fishing

[AbyssiniaLady]

In the meantime, Illegal Chinese fishing fleet are sweeping everything off of the bottom of the "Djibouti/Eritrea" Red Sea floor taking in all sizes of fish and destroying the coral reefs, without punishment.

Djibouti.

[AbyssiniaLady]

2010, Map Western Indian Ocean purse seine tuna fishery. Cyclical pattern of activity by month based upon the European Union purse seine fleet movements. EEZ/Fishery Zones shown. After MRAG Ltd. (2010).