Senegal is facing severe depletion of demersal fish stocks due to industrial fisheries and a fast and spontaneous development of artisanal fisheries. Fisheries overexploitation is caused by little awareness among artisanal fishers about the importance of fisheries management and conflicting and competing interests of local and migrant fishermen. The general...
In Africa, there is a growing awareness of the need to learn from the fisheries experiences of Asia, where the fisheries conditions are similar, to solve the deepening crisis in fisheries and poverty in the continent. As a response, technical assistance in the areas of fish stock assessment, fisheries management...
This video was produced by the Japan International Cooperation Agency to show the fisheries co-management activities recently adopted in Senegal. The structure of the video is as follows: causes of decline of fisheries resources, change of strategy from top-down to bottom-up fisheries management, building consensus among the fishermen with the...
In Senegal, the management of artisanal fisheries which account for approximately 90% of the total catch is an urgent task in view of the declining trend of fisheries resources. In this context, community-based fisheries co-management (CBFCM) has been attracting much attention in recent years as an artisanal fisheries management method....