The Islamic Republic of Mauritania has been a FiTI Compliant country since May 2025.
Mauritania is renowned for its abundant and diverse fisheries resources. Nearly 600 fish species have been inventoried, of which more than 200 are commercially exploitable. The importance that marine fisheries play for Mauritania in fulfilling the economic, employment, food security, and nutrition needs of its people cannot be underestimated.
| FiTI Lead Ministry: | Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy |
| FiTI National Lead: | Mr Sidi Ali Sidi Boubacar |
| Head of FiTI National Secretariat: | Mr Lamine Camara |
| Contact within the FiTI International Secretariat: | Mr Mansor Ndour |
Implementation timeline
Candidate application
The FiTI International Board approved Mauritania’s Candidate application on 13 December 2018 during its 5th Board meeting.
FiTI Reports
| No. | Calendar year | Transparency requirements | Submission date | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2018 | 6 | 18 May 2021 | 2018 FiTI Report |
| 2 | 2019 & 2020 | 12 | 24 March 2022 | 2019/20 FiTI Report |
| 3 | 2021 | 6 | 26 April 2023 | 2021 FiTI Report |
| 4 | 2022 | 12 | 15 December 2023 | 2022 FiTI Report |
| 5 | 2023 | 12 | 25 December 2024 | 2023 FiTI Report |
Mauritania’s sixth FiTI Report, covering calendar year 2024, is due by the end of 2025.
Validations
The FiTI International Board has recognised Mauritania’s efforts to implement the FiTI Standard with a overall score of ‘compliant’ in the country’s second validation (time frame: April 2022 – July 2024).
This achievement makes Mauritania the second country globally to achieve an overall compliant status in implementing the FiTI Standard. The FiTI International Board congratulates Mauritania on this significant achievement, which demonstrates that all necessary aspects of the validation requirements have been met for the period under validation.
The FiTI International Board is confident that Mauritania, inspired by this significant result, will maintain and reinforce its efforts to strengthen and institutionalise its fisheries sector transparency and participatory governance further, thus ensuring that the country’s compliant status in the FiTI is retained over time. For this, the FiTI International Board formulated in its Compliance Statement several corrective actions to be undertaken by Mauritania. The Board will review the implementation status of these corrective actions until April 2026.
Relevant posts
- Mauritania achieves ‘Compliant’ status under the FiTI Standard
- Mauritania publishes 5th annual FiTI Report
- FiTI, stakeholders discuss upcoming compliance validation for Mauritania
- Mauritania reviews implementation progress, prepares for second FiTI validation
- Mauritania publishes 4th annual FiTI Report, covering calendar year 2022
- Mauritania publishes 3rd annual FiTI Report, covering calendar year 2021
- FiTI International Board sees ‘meaningful progress’ of FiTI implementation in Mauritania
- Mauritania releases 2nd FiTI Report, boosting access to fisheries information for calendar years 2019 and 2020
- Webinar: Transparency of fisheries in Mauritania (and beyond) | 27 July 2021
- Mauritania launches its 1st FiTI Report!
- Mauritania shares experience in providing first FiTI workplan
- Mauritania becomes 1st FiTI Candidate country
- PRCM & FiTI join forces to promote fisheries transparency in West Africa
- Mauritania consolidates progress towards a FiTI Candidate application
- 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Launching a new era of transparency and participation in fisheries
- Mauritania launches its FiTI National Multi-Stakeholder Group
- SRFC & FiTI Secretariat partner to enhance transparent and inclusive fisheries
- Mauritania urges world to fight fishing secrecy; three more countries commit
- Mauritania continues support for the development of the FiTI
- GUEST ARTICLE – Stakeholders of Mauritanian fisheries sector want to set an example for FiTI implementation
