The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany (represented by the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, BMZ) and the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) will cooperate on the project "Sustainable marine fisheries through transparency and stakeholder participation". The project has a timeframe of 5 years (2024 – 2028) and a…
The FiTI has launched a new Community of Practice (CoP) to sensitise key non-governmental actors in all six African Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on the role of transparency in marine fisheries management. The CoP is financially supported by Irish Aid. Transparency has a particularly elevated importance for fisheries management…
31 July 2023. The International Board of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) is extremely pleased to welcome three new Board Members: Ketakandriana (Ke) Rafitoson from Madagascar (nominated by Transparency Internacional (TI)), Umair Shahid from Pakistan (nominated by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)), and Zacari (Zac) Edwards from the United…
The FiTI International Board, the initiative's global oversight body, has established a dedicated Working Group to oversee the review of the FiTI Standard and make a recommendation to the FiTI International Board on how to update it to a version 2.0. The FiTI Standard is the only internationally recognised framework…
The FiTI International Board – the global oversight body of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) – reappointed on the 29th of June 2023, Mr Sven Biermann as the Executive Director (ED) of the FiTI International Secretariat for a second term of four years, starting on the 1st of January, 2024.…
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…
26 April 2023. The FiTI National Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) of Mauritania published today its third annual FiTI Report, covering information for calendar year 2021. Through this new FiTl Report, the National MSG continued strengthening the country's efforts to improve transparency and enables a better understanding of the current situation as…