NOUAKCHOTT, 4 October 2015. Mauritania is stepping up its engagement with FiTI, with both national and international organizations offering opinions and advice as a FiTI Secretariat team visited the West African country. Workshop around the FiTI with representatives from the civil society and artisanal fisheries organizations The Secretariat team was…
With some of the world’s most abundant fishing grounds along its 600 km coastline separating the Atlantic Ocean from the Sahara Desert, Mauritania has great hopes that the new Fisheries Transparency Initiative will help the country improve its fisheries management by making the sector more transparent. H.E. Sid'Ahmed Raïss, Minister for Economic…
Las Palmas, 17 September 2015. Mr. Biermann, Program Director of the FiTI, presented the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) at the Conference of the Long Distance Advisory Council (LDAC) on the External Dimension of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in Las Palmas / Gran Canaria. Credit Picture @LDAC & MWC As Mr. Biermann pointed out,…