On Friday, 16 June, the FiTI International Secretariat engaged with young students of the Seychelles Maritime Academy on the objectives of the FiTI and why transparency in fisheries management is of relevance to their studies and future careers. Two groups underwent the training session, namely a cohort of advanced learners…
The Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) launched today a new tool to monitor improvement recommendations made by National Multi-Stakeholder Groups (MSGs) to progressively enhance transparency in fisheries management in their countries. The FiTI is based on the principle that implementing countries do not need to have complete data for every transparency…
Today, on World Ocean Day, the FiTI announced the start of its transparency assessment of publicly available marine fisheries information for Chile. As one of the leading fishing nations in the Americas, Chile becomes the sixth country in the region (and the 11th country globally) to undergo such a TAKING…
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are prominent custodians of our blue planet, owning vast areas of the ocean. This includes most of the world’s tropical coral reefs and some of the most productive fishing grounds. Transparency has therefore an elevated importance for fisheries management in these SIDS. But while SIDS…