The Nation Newspaper Illegal fishing threatening prospects of blue economy
Illegal fishing on the nation’s territorial waters and the high seas is adversely affecting the economy. In this report,looks at the negative and harmful impacts of illegitimate fishing in the light of the government’s economic rejuvenation agenda.
For over three decades, stakeholders in the sector had advocated the creation of a separate ministry to oversee the affairs of the maritime industry like that of aviation. But the advocacy, they said, fell on deaf ears until Tinubu assumed duties and saw the reason to create the special purpose ministry to drive the economy and job creation.
For example, the Federal Government had explained that the country’s fish production stood at 0.8 million metric tonnes as local demand was 3.5 million tonnes yearlly; with a deficit of 2.7 million tonnes, noting that $1.2 billion worth of fish was imported yearly. An IUU fishing refers to illegal fishing. It is against the rules and regulations that are in place for that jurisdiction or region. Unreported fish mens catches that are not reported or not reported correctly to the appropriate authorities.Unregulated fishing: This is the fishing taking place by vessels without nationality, or in areas without any agreed rules or regulations being agreed to by the country or jurisdiction of the fisher.
Operators said there is a steady decline in nation’s local catch and production of fish. According to an expert, Fisayo Atanda, “in 1983, domestic production of fish was predicted to be between 600,000 and 700,000 tons, but now local cash has dropped to 441,337, which is not in the interest of the government and the people living across the country’’.
Also, Montgomery expressed the government’s desire to partner the Federal Government to tackle the challenge of illegal fishing. Prior to this, China had offered to cooperate in creating a regional framework in West Africa for constructive engagement with stakeholders to facilitate information sharing in fisheries management, with a particular focus on the operations of foreign-owned fishing vessels and companies in West Africa.
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