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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 19 Aug 2021, 11:48

Saudi Arabia Studies Fisheries Investment Project in Somalia

Sunday, 15 August, 2021 - 08:30


(The Saudi private sector is looking to invest in fisheries off the coast of Somalia. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Riyadh - Bandar al-Mosalam

Saudi Arabia and Somalia are deliberating the latter presenting the Kingdom with a feasibility study for a fishery investment project in the East African state, official sources told Asharq Al-Awsat. Officials from both countries had met in the Omani capital Muscat to discuss future opportunities in the field.

The Saudi General Authority for Foreign Trade (GAFT) had filled in the Kingdom’s private sector on available opportunities in Somalia and provided it with a detailed study for fishery investments in the republic, sources added.

For its part, Somalia reported that it has many comparative advantages, boasts the largest seacoast in Africa, and ranks first in exporting livestock and fish.

According to the study presented by the GAFT, which Asharq Al-Awsat reviewed a copy of, a partnership can be established with able and willing investors who have a passion for the fishing sector.

Despite noting that great financial returns characterize the fishing sector, the study acknowledged that it remains a complex commercial field requiring extensive experience.

For that reason, the GAFT has also provided a team of specialists who have the competence and ability to implement any commercial fishing project of any size and scope.

Somalia expressed its willingness to work with the appropriate partners. It said it would provide integrated solutions and mechanisms, including advisory services, project management, assuming responsibility for marketing, and recruiting needed labor in return for a percentage of the project’s shares.

Reports by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) confirm that Somali waters are rich in yellowfin tuna, various types of swordfish and shrimp.

For the time being, these species are still sustainable to some extent due to their migration from their marine habitats towards the coast of Somalia.

However, illegal overfishing at its current pace is seriously depleting marine life in Somali waters, threatening the country’s fish wealth in the near future.

https://english.aawsat.com/home/article ... ct-somalia

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 29 Aug 2021, 11:59

Economic terrorism against the Somali people


Northeastern Somalia


(This is an old article but well written article. 2008) by an angry Liberian.

Contrary to common perception, the swift and coordinated international response to piracy off Somalia’s coast has been less of a success than reports make it out to be. In fact, it masks deeper problems of unfairness in international economic order and local governance. Somalia’s pirates are a motley crew: some are fishermen defending their turf, while others are guns for hire. And the international response to these pirates has been, not surprisingly, military. But more is needed, including action that addresses the deeper issue in Somalia: a lack of economic growth and good governance. Yet, UN Secretary General Moon’s appeal to 50 countries for broader assistance received almost no response. Of the countries that contributed naval vessels to the anti-piracy operation, half are nations engaged in fishing in the Indian Ocean with a vested interest in deterring piracy.

It is against the backdrop of the above statements that I shall attempt to expose the so- called “pirates” propaganda being used as a smokescreen to invade, destabilize, and control the Horn of Afrika. The Pirates are the pretext to justify all means of military invasion in Somalia that could eventually lead to military invasion/intervention in the horn of Africa. The so-called pirates crisis is a struggle between China, America and the West to control the strategic waterways in Somalia and the Horn of Afrika. Somalia’s strategic position in the Horn of Africa means that any nation that dominates this area will have tremendous control over world trade.

For the West and the U.S, control of this region will allow them to counter the dominance of China in the region, as well as use the region as a base to conduct operations on “terrorists” and nations accused of “harboring” terrorists.

Does it not bother the Afrikan people that out of nowhere, a group of men now being called pirates and terrorists by the western media seemed to have all of a sudden emerged on the global political scene? As of today, April 12, it’s being reported that eighteen nations, led by the U.S, British, and Chinese have sent military ships on the coast of Somalia to deal with the men now called “pirates”.

The hypocrisy and double standard of the West regarding the so called “pirates” does not shock me at all, because hypocrisy is the foundation of Western foreign policy towards Afrika. Far too little has been said about European and Asian companies’ outright theft of Somalia’s resources, Where was the UN Security Council when this economic terrorism against the “stateless” Somali people was taking place? Now, the same nations that have been engaged in massive theft and economic degradation on Somalia’s coasts are calling for blood and military action to ensure that economic terrorism against the Somali people is not interrupted.

The hypocrisy can be compared to the U.S and its allies killing thousands of Iraqis and referring to the murder of these Iraqis as killing the “enemy” and fighting for “freedom and liberty”, yet when these desperate individuals decide to fight back, they are called insurgents, terrorists, and enemy combatants.

After years of plundering their resources, the Somali fishermen finally decided to fight off the real pirates, thieves, and terrorists, and instead of being called voluntary coast guards, they are being labeled as criminals, pirates, and terrorists. I am not so naïve to believe that all the fishermen now being called pirates are doing so for nationalistic purposes, but does it matter?

In my humble opinion they are totally justified in their actions because they are doing nothing different than what is being done to them by the same people calling them pirates. The only difference is that unlike the propagandists, the Somalis don’t have a voice.

The truth about the Somalia Pirates crisis is being suppressed, and a lie is being told to the world. There’s more to the story that isn’t been told by the corporate-controlled western media. What’s even more disheartening to me is the poor reporting and lack of analysis from the Afrikan media. Instead of correcting the lies being told by the propagandists, many have elected to regurgitate biased western reports. The notion that the so-called “pirates” are a bunch of rag tag terrorists whose only intention is to harass helpless foreign ships is not accurate.

Since the collapsed of the central government in 1990, there has been no central authority to enforce and regulate Somalia’s waterways, especially the fishing area along its coast, which is said to be the most extensive coast on the continent. The result has been local Somali small fishing vessels and fishermen, who have no protection or rights over the country’s waterways, and large foreign ships with sophisticated fishing equipments (mostly Europeans and Asians) have been able to take control of the country’s waterways and its fishing-stocks, completely overwhelming local fishermen. Due to the plundering of their waters, local Somalis sought to extract “license-fees” from the international fishermen and they were dismissed. The fishermen also complained to the UN as well as other environmental NGOs to no avail; and over time this situation has escalated and the Somalis have taken matters into their own hands. Their decision to fight back has made them the world’s most wanted criminals.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 29 Aug 2021, 18:11

The West Hypocrisy and Economic Imperialism



Somali fishing boats.

(This is another excellent old article). 2006


Ever since a civil war brought down Somalia’s last functional government in 1991, the country’s 3,333 km (2,000 miles) of coastline — the longest in continental Africa — has been pillaged by foreign vessels. A UN report in 2006 said that, in the absence of the country’s at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international “free for all,” with fishing fleets from around the world illegally plundering Somali stocks and freezing out the country’s own rudimentarily-equipped fishermen.

European ships have been looting Somalia’s seas of their greatest resource: seafood. Having destroyed their own fish stocks by over-exploitation and now we have moved on to theirs. According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country’s coastline each year. “In any context,” says Gustavo Carvalho, a London-based researcher with Global Witness, an environmental NGO, “that is a staggering sum.”

Now the international community is shouting about piracy. But long before this, we were shouting to the world about our problems” “No one listened”. In 1991, the government and its security forces were swallowed up in a coup. The country’s endless coastline – at nearly 2,000 miles, it’s longer than the U.S. West Coast – suddenly became an unguarded supermarket of tuna, mackerel and other fish.When huge foreign (super) trawlers suddenly began appearing, the local fishermen who plied their trade with simple nets and small fiberglass boats were wiped out.”They fished everything – sharks, lobsters, eggs,” …”They collided with our boats. They came with giant nets and swept everything out of the sea.”

The situation that developed has been described by Peter Lehr, of St. Andrew’s University, as “a resource swap” with Somalis taking $100 million annually in ransoms while Europeans and Asian poach $300 million in fish.

According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country’s coastline each year.
That was then, Today, European and Asian illegal fishing trawlers haul about US$1.5 billion worth of seafood out of Somali waters annually.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 03 Sep 2021, 20:50

Safe repatriation for 12 Indonesian fishermen stranded aboard Chinese vessel in Somalian water

The fishermen faced exploitation and abuse from operators of the vessel they were working at

by Yas 02/09/2021 in International, Labour Reading Time: 3 mins read



JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Twelve Indonesian fishing vessel crew members who were stranded in Somalian waters since January have been safely repatriated, with the assistance of the Indonesian embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Indonesian embassy in Nairobi on 29 August stated that the workers wanted to be repatriated to Indonesia due to the expiring contract, exploitation, and poor working equipment and conditions aboard the vessel.

The Indonesian government also cooperated with The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), the Destructive Fishing Watch (DFW), and the International Justice Mission (IJF) in the process.

DFW’s Mr Abdi Suhufan told TOC on 30 August that the 12 fishermen arrived safely in Jakarta on 28 August.


“Now they are being quarantined at Wisma Atlet in Kemayoran (an emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients),” he said.

The crew initially had 13 people, but one of them was never found after jumping into the sea.

The fishermen were stranded for months in the Chinese-flagged boats Liao Dong Yu 535, 577, 571, 572, and 575 due to a dispute related to their contract terms with the boat owners, which expired in December 2020.

The Chinese operator claimed that they still obtained the contracts. Ironically, the workers’ manning agencies could not be reached due to legal problems.

A Somalian volunteer revealed in the joint vessel briefing report by EJF, DFW, and IJM that the Chinese vessel operator had agreed with the Indonesian manning agency for the fishermen to work for two years.

However, the Chinese operator then allegedly drew up a contract using an unknown agency in Singapore that will bind the fishermen to work until December 2021 in a bid to silence the boat crew members.

The report, posted on Facebook, revealed that fishers at the Liao Dong Yu 571 received abusive treatment from the Chinese captain.

At the end of the report, the three organisations recommended steps that can be taken by Indonesia’s related institutions.

Those steps include the investigation of the manning agencies that recruited those fishers for potential human trafficking crimes, the payment of compensation to the fishers (including for the deceased one), the facilitation of training for fishers before they depart so they are aware of their rights and obligations.

Acknowledging the problems faced by boat crew members overseas, Indonesia’s Minister of Manpower Ms Ida Fauziyah said that the government will continue to improve the placement procedure of the country’s fishermen overseas.

She added that the government is soon expected to finish the details of Law No.18/2017 on the Protection for Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI), which includes protections for those working for foreign-flagged commercial and fishing vessels.

The overlapping placement procedure involving the Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of Transportation halts the protection efforts for fishers working at foreign-flagged vessels.

Mr Abdi stated that many manning agencies are not registered and do not provide appropriate training for workers, adding that contract deception starts when those agencies recruit fishers at their hometown.

“The contract promises a monthly salary of US$400. But in reality, many fishermen are paid lower than the amount stated in the contract, and they only receive the payment once,” he told TOC on 29 August.

The DFW data showed that 22 Indonesian fishermen died while working for Chinese-flagged fishing boats throughout 2020.

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2021/0 ... ian-waters

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by Hawdian » 03 Sep 2021, 21:02

Galla lady

Stop obsessing over Somalia, you never going to become a citizen.

You are just a Galla who had Somali kids.

Galla are landlocked. Sending their women as s3x toys for us will not work.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by Somaliman » 03 Sep 2021, 21:25

Hawdian wrote:
03 Sep 2021, 21:02
Galla lady

Stop obsessing over Somalia, you never going to become a citizen.

You are just a Galla who had Somali kids.

Galla are landlocked. Sending their women as s3x toys for us will not work.






You used to call her Habesha but have lately switched to calling her Galla!

FYI, she's neither Habesha nor Galla. Chinese! Out of question!

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by Hawdian » 03 Sep 2021, 21:51

Some Galla like Yejju were Abyssinians. I believe she is Wollo Galla.

She can't be Abyssinian any more because the original Abyssinians are at war meaning such title is dead.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 04 Sep 2021, 11:23

Hawdian wrote:
03 Sep 2021, 21:51
Some Galla like Yejju were Abyssinians. I believe she is Wollo Galla.

She can't be Abyssinian any more because the original Abyssinians are at war meaning such title is dead.

You are mentally ill sharmûta who is obsessed with Oromo men, stay away from my thread, nasty old fggt!!

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by Deqi-Arawit » 04 Sep 2021, 11:28

[deleted]!
If you are mad that the Chinese are fishing outside the Somali waters, You should be very happy that the Eritrean navy is putting some Arab fishermen to their place if they transgress our territorial waters.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 04 Sep 2021, 12:28

Deqi-Arawit wrote:
04 Sep 2021, 11:28
[deleted]!
If you are mad that the Chinese are fishing outside the Somali waters, You should be very happy that the Eritrean navy is putting some Arab fishermen to their place if they transgress our territorial waters.

Chinese are NOT fishing outside the Somali waters, they are fishing inside Somali waters & Somali beaches, You are not making any sense, what is the point of putting poor Yemenis fishermen to their place when Eritrean fishermen living under Isaias Afwerki occupation are banned from fishing.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by Hawdian » 04 Sep 2021, 12:38

Galla lady,

You are using our name instead of your stateless people :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Just because a Somali brother bangs you doesn't make you one of us.

I have one of my balls in Ethiopia, one in Somalia, my dhalfo in Djibouti and the sperm stored in NFD (Kenya Somalis). I am a Somali with such vast land across multi-national borders.

I feel bad for you farm qoti girl. Don't use our name. Somalia is not your business.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by Somaliman » 04 Sep 2021, 14:13

Hawdian wrote:
04 Sep 2021, 12:38
Galla lady,

You are using our name instead of your stateless people :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Just because a Somali brother bangs you doesn't make you one of us.

I have one of my balls in Ethiopia, one in Somalia, my dhalfo in Djibouti and the sperm stored in NFD (Kenya Somalis). I am a Somali with such vast land across multi-national borders.

I feel bad for you farm qoti girl. Don't use our name. Somalia is not your business.






You are using our name instead of your stateless people
You're dead wrong! She's not using anyone's name; she's proud of who she is. She's just sharing latest developments and discussing facts - and to do this, one doesn't necessarily need to belong to anyone else or use someone else's name.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 06 Sep 2021, 12:46

Fishing in African waters


Africa feeds Europe




April 26, 2021

New study utilizes satellite data to track industrial fishing activities in coastal African waters

African waters have been contributing to the global supply of fish for years, with three of the five most productive marine ecosystems in the world near the African continent, the Canary Current (off Northwest Africa) the Benguela Current (off southern Africa) and the Somali Current (off Somalia)



African countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) contributed over 6 million metric tons of fish to the world’s food supply, supporting food security and livelihood in the continent, while generating $15 billion to the African gross domestic product in 2011. Every sovereign state has an EEZ, an area of ocean adjacent to their shores in which they have special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources.

Industrial fleets from countries around the world have been increasingly fishing in African waters, but with climate change and increasing pollution threatening Africa’s fish stocks, there is a growing concern of the sustainability of these marine fisheries if they continue to be exploited by foreign countries.

A new study used Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite data from Global Fishing Watch to describe and characterize the spatial characteristics of African and foreign industrial fishing activities within these African EEZs. Mi-Ling Li, assistant professor in the University of Delaware’s School of Marine Science and Policy in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE), served as the lead author on the paper, which was published in the Fish and Fisheries scientific journal.

(Northern Somalia)


Countries in Africa have a short-term economic incentive to grant foreign countries access to fish in their waters. Those foreign countries have to make direct payments to acquire permits to fish in a country’s EEZ.

“There has been controversy over foreign fishing in African waters, but there hasn’t been a quantitative assessment of how they act,” said Li. “It’s difficult because a lot of the African countries do not have good surveillance of their fisheries.”


Unlike some other African countries, Namibia requires fleets in their EEZ to land their catches in their domestic ports. Not all fishing fleets followed that regulation, however. While 20 fishing entities were identified by AIS as being in Namibian waters, not all of the vessels recorded having caught fish in those waters.

“Namibia has a relatively good surveillance system, and they require every fleet who fishes there to land in their docks,” said Li. “But even with those regulations, we find a big discrepancy in who reported fishing and catch there and who we detected by AIS. This is a big issue with regards to illegal fishing in African waters.”

The authors said the AIS system can be utilized to help detect and characterize unreported activities in these EEZs, which can help with the response to IUU fishing.

The study described spatial and temporal characteristics for both African and foreign industrial fishing activities — examining boats that were large enough to carry AIS trackers.

"African fisheries desperately need better information and data for management,” said David Kroodsma, Director of Research and Innovation at the Global Fishing Watch and a co-author of the paper. “It is exciting to be able to use vessel GPS data to help solve this challenge and reveal fishing activity across the continent."

The paper highlights where and how long the boats spent most of their time and what fish they reported catching in those locations.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 19 Oct 2021, 19:04

The most blessed country in Africa.


School of fish so close to the shore.



Yes, Somalia is a blessed country but it is not benefiting from its natural wealth right now, Arabs, Asian and European thieves dominate fisheries in Somali waters and profits the most from it, Currently as I am writing this comment, Arabs, Asian and European fishing vessels are illegally harvesting million tonnes of seafood in Somali waters then selling the seafood back to the African continent and to the international markets, Fisheries are lucrative business, feeding a market worth billions of dollars and Somali waters are the world's most productive unprotected fishing grounds, After all, other than Somalia, there is no country in the world that has been blessed with a high wind, huge upwelling and nutrient rich pristine waters.


Somalia is one of the few places on Earth where marine biodiversity is actually increasing, you can fish in front of your house.




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Post by AbyssiniaLady » 25 Oct 2021, 12:12

The NOC to release new MOOC lectures on Somalia upwelling and fisheries

22 October 2021

Registration for the free online course Ocean Science in Action: Addressing Marine Ecosystems and Food Security in the Western Indian Ocean is now open on Future Learn.

The highly successful Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), will start again on 1 November with new lectures on Somalia upwelling and fisheries.

The four-week course, which will from now on run continuously in “on-demand” format, is designed for people working within marine related industries and is also more widely relevant to those with an interest in ocean management and conservation, the technology used to study the ocean, and the impact of the accelerated climate change on the marine environment. The MOOC features over 30 videos, introducing learners to innovative marine technologies and their application in tackling the challenges of sustainably managing marine ecosystems.

Using case studies from the SOLSTICE-WIO project, the course illustrates how marine science is applied to the sustainable management of marine ecosystems and how this can contribute to global efforts in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the challenges of the Ocean Decade 2030.

The NOC recently celebrated the MOOC’s first birthday, which since launch, has had a global reach, with 3400 enrolments from 140 countries to date.


https://noc.ac.uk/news/noc-release-new- ... -fisheries

Mooc for Somalis who care about their lonely coastline marine ecosystems & the environment.

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Post by AbyssiniaLady » 27 Oct 2021, 14:23

Fisherman dies trying to escape abuse aboard Chinese vessels fishing illegally in Somalia

By EJF Staff Oct 26, 2021





Crew on board Chinese vessels fishing illegally off the coast of Somalia were beaten, deprived of food, and forced to work for nothing, investigations by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) have revealed. In an attempt to swim ashore to escape the abuse, one man drowned. The six vessels were fishing without authorisation and using prohibited gear, violating both Somali Fisheries Law and China’s Distant-Water Fishing Management Regulation.

Indonesian crew aboard the vessels – which were all part of the Liao Dong Yu fleet ­– reported physical abuse from Chinese captains, being forced to work without pay, and being denied food if they did not work. After their contracts ended, the vessel operator refused to repatriate at least 13 Indonesian crew members, and they were forced to stay and work. One of these fishers lost his life in an escape attempt as he tried to swim to shore.

The crew also reported being denied access to clean water, proper protective equipment or access to medical supplies and assistance. In August 2021, EJF, Destructive Fishing Watch and the International Justice Mission were finally able to repatriate the remaining 12 Indonesian crew.

Alongside this abuse, the vessels were fishing in Somali waters without authorisation, using prohibited fishing gear including trawl nets, and fishing in zones reserved for local Somali fishers. These practices cause irreversible damage to marine life and threaten the livelihoods and food security of Somali fishing communities.

Photo evidence and crew testimony showed the vessels also caught protected, often endangered, species, including whale sharks, dolphins, turtles, and even what is thought to be a megamouth shark – an extremely elusive shark species with less than 100 specimens ever observed.

“[We caught dolphins] very often... the cook took the guts and cooked them for their [the Chinese crew] meals,” said one crewmember. The capture of marine mammals is in violation of Somali law and China’s Distant-Water Fishing Management Regulation.

Crew were also ordered to fin sharks, they reported. This is a barbaric and wasteful process where shark fins are removed and the bodies thrown back into the ocean to die. “We threw away all small-sized sharks. For the bigger size sharks like above 20kg, we would take the fins only and throw away the bodies,” said one crewmember.

It is extremely concerning that the distant water fleets of powerful countries like China are exploiting the marine resources of countries like Somalia, which lack the capacity to adequately police their waters, says EJF.

Steve Trent, founder and CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation, said: “A man is dead because of the unspeakable behaviour aboard this fleet – my thoughts are with his mourning family. These gross violations of human rights are exacerbated and driven by illegal fishing. As fish populations plummet and catches become smaller, unscrupulous operators turn to trafficking and slavery to make a profit. These practices also endanger irreplaceable ocean life and threaten the livelihoods and food security of local fishing communities. All this is made possible by the overwhelming lack of transparency in the fishing sector. Transparency measures – such as giving all vessels unique identifying numbers – matched by strict enforcement of fisheries laws, are urgently needed globally. It is also time for major market states such as the European Union, the USA and Japan to come together to force China to face up to its responsibilities to address the widespread environmental and human rights abuses in its distant-water fishing fleet.”



Notes for Editors
  • Along with the six trawling vessels, EJF also identified a reefer (fish carrier) as part of the Liao Dong Yu fleet operating in the same area.
  • None of these vessels had broadcast their AIS – an automatic tracking system – since September 2020.
  • Records of these vessels are almost entirely absent from online vessel databases, making tracing their ownership, history, and legitimacy extremely difficult. This lack of transparency globally allows perpetrators to slip through the net and commit illegal acts with impunity.
  • These vessels were also mandated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China to trans-ship any catch via the port of Djibouti. Evidence suggests they have been transferring catch between vessels at sea. In doing so they are failing to comply with the ministry’s mandate.
  • Two fishers are reported to have lost their lives on these vessels following an accident onboard. A large wave had hit the vessel and broken an iron chain holding back a heavy trawl door which had then hit one of the fishers and threw another into the sea. The second crewmember’s body has not yet been recovered.
The Environmental Justice Foundation is an international non-governmental organisation working to protect the environment and defend human rights. EJF is a charity registered in England and Wales (1088128). www.ejfoundation.org


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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 27 Oct 2021, 14:39

The Western media blame China for illegal fishing in Somali waters and they are right, Chinese are well known thieves but Europeans are worse than Chinese, French's illegal fishing vessels alone catch more than 250 million euros worth of fish in Somali waters each year.

Somalis must sermonize fisheries holistically as a food, just like camel meat, camel milk, revenue and human security issue etc, Only then will Somalia be able to protect the bountiful resources in its vast maritime estate, Somalia seas’s seabed is also home to a wealth of natural resources in high demand such as oil and gas, rare earth metals, nickel, cobalt, manganese, larbium, eurithuim, platinum, silver, gold, zinc.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 31 Oct 2021, 19:11

Somalia's coast is home to the largest seabird colony in Africa, It needs an urgent law that protect seabirds.

Somalia's cormorant.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 07 Nov 2021, 20:33

Operation ATALANTA remains committed to contribute to fight IUU fishing for sustainable fishing of the coast of Somalia

November 5, 2021 - 10:17






On a quarterly basis, the Operation Headquarters of EU NAVFOR Somalia presents a detailed update on the accumulated observations of fishing activities off the coast of Somalia to the European Commission’s Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries the Directorate General (DG Mare), as last 14th of October, when our Target Audience Analyst met with the EU Fisheries inspector and Technical Advisor for Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU) in Brussels.

Major Sara Rivera is ATALANTA’s Target Audience Analyst of the Future Operations branch located at EU NAVFOR Operation Headquarters in Rota. One of her main responsibilities is to analyse all information on fishing vessels provided by the Force Headquarters, currently embarked on ESPS Victoria and gathered by all deployed assets in the Area of Operations. Once the information has been evaluated, an exhaustive report is then send to DG MARE.






“It is one the Operation’s core tasks to exchange information with DG MARE, which they then share with the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC). The data on fishing activities is essential in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries allowing the competent authorities to take action against offenders, who violate the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Somalia.”

Maj. Sara Rivera Lopez (ESP, Army)

Over the past three months, EU NAVFOR reported and documented more than 200 fishing-related observations.

Source, European Union Naval Force Website.

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Re: Somalia loses $500 million annually to foreign illegal fishing

Post by AbyssiniaLady » 07 Nov 2021, 20:49

Without plundering Somalia's vast coastline, which is by the way the largest in mainland Africa & the richest fishing areas in the world, There would be a seafood shortage in the European Union countries, It's a fact not fiction, The majority of the fish stolen from Somalia ends up on the plates of European countries.

Fishing village in central Somalia seas.


Fishing village in Southern Somalia seas.


European tuna-steaks, Stolen from Somalia.

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