Fishing sector hangs in the balance in Tanzania

>With just five months left before the start of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, hopes  for Tanzania minting medals at the quadrennial meet are increasingly fading.

A task force that has been trying to organise a public debate for presidential candidates said yesterday that the event could not take place two weeks ago because some parties had failed to confirm their participation.

Tony Mwanri thought of venturing into fishing during his days as a university student.

President Jakaya Kikwete’s visit to China, where he has signed investment deals worth billions of US dollars, speaks volumes about relations between the two countries.

Tanzania gender balance goal ‘on track’  The Citizen Daily

A marine scientist, Mr Jason Rubens, today made damning revelations on the extent of dynamite fishing in some coastal areas of Tanzania, saying the resurgence of blast-fishing has been driven by the availability of illegally-traded industrial explosives and detonation materials, in part, imported for use in the mining sector.

Blast fishing leaves Tanzania’s coral reefs in rubble

Dynamite fishing: A tourism and terrorist attraction in Tanzania
eTurboNews
News are emerging from Tanzania that two days ago a major cache of explosives was found loaded on a bus destined from Arusha to Dar es Salaam. A routine police control at a check point near Korogwe arrested the vehicle driver and held passengers for ...

At the close of a two-day seminar on how to fight dynamite fishing, which was held in Tanga Region last October, it was apparent that the participants, including scientists, fisheries officers, police, magistrates, journalists and fishers showed were unhappy that dynamite fishing was still active along Tanzania’s 800-kilometre long coastal line.