Eco-labelling is considered with increased interest within the scope of fisheries crisis, as a way
to tackle both marine biodiversity conservation and development issues. Along West African
Coast, diversity and specificity of seafood issued from localised fishery systems (or fishery
territories) are remarkable and recognised from long time. Recently, initiatives...
The article provides policy guiding recommendations for enhancing the sustainable development of Senegal’s marine fishery system. A new sustainable development assessment method is proposed and is applied to Senegal’s marine fishery in order to provide these recommendations.
A discussion of the conditions for sustainable development suggest that the sustainable development...
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 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....