Reps want an end to illegal fishing in Isles

Reps want an end to illegal fishing in Isles
Daily News
ZANZIBAR government has been challenged to control unwanted fishing methods by supplying fishermen with the required fishing gear, a Member of the House of Representatives said on Thursday. “We have been hunting for people using banned means of ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

BBC

Senegal's battle to end illegal fishing

How Senegal is battling to end costly illegal fishing off its coast

 

10 years ago

Daily News

10 Aug

Illegal fishing must be effectively tamed

Illegal fishing must be effectively tamed
Daily News
SMALL-SCALE fishermen on the Lake Tanganyika shoreline have come up in arms complaining bitterly that their 802m/- fish market in Kasanga Village in Kalambo District remains in complete disuse even after being opened officially. Construction of the ...

 

11 years ago

Daily News

14 Jan

Lindi police hold five over illegal fishing

Lindi police hold five over illegal fishing
Daily News
POLICE in Lindi district, Lindi region, are holding five people residing in Mchinga ward, suspected of illegal fishing and illegal possession of banned fishing gear. Mching ward executive officer, Mr Saidi Makinda, said the suspects were found with dynamite ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Jun

More effort needed to check illegal fishing

Reports from the Lake Zone say that authorities have reduced the use of illegal fishing gear on Lake Victoria by almost 50 per cent in recent years. If this is indeed true, then it is a quite a significant development.

 

11 years ago

Daily News

29 Mar

Appeal Court quashes illegal fishing trial

Appeal Court quashes illegal fishing trial
Daily News
THE Court of Appeal nullified the proceedings in the illegal fishing trial, commonly known as “Samaki wa Magufuli” case involving two foreigners, who were convicted by the High Court and sentenced to ten years imprisonment or pay 21bn/- fine.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Apr

Coastal area management vital in illegal fishing fight

>Villagers living along the coast in Tanga Region have appealed to the government to revive coastal area collaborative management area programmes (CMAPs) in a quest to stem the rising wave of illegal fishing activities along the coast, including dynamite fishing.

 

9 years ago

Nature World News

31 Dec

Illegal Blast Fishing Destroys Tanzania's Rich Marine Life

Nature World News
Illegal Blast Fishing Destroys Tanzania's Rich Marine Life
Nature World News
Tanzanian fishermen are using a rather aggressive approach to increase their catches – they toss a homemade bottle bombs into the sea, killing hundreds of fish at one time. This dangerous tactic, also known as blast fishing, indirectly threatens ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Nov

FEATURE : Tanzania sets strategy to end chronic blast fishing

The days of people involved in blast fishing, who are wreaking havoc along Tanzania’s 800-kilometre coastal line, are numbered, warns head of the Multi-Agency Task Team (Matt) deputy commissioner of Police (DCP) Daniel Nyambabe.

 

10 years ago

Michuzi

China signals end to domestic ivory market during destruction of illegal stockpile

Beijing, China, 29 May 2015 —The Chinese government indicated today that it was planning to eventually phase out its domestic ivory market. 
According to the announcement by the administrator of the State Forestry Administration during the public destruction of 662kg of confiscated illegal ivory, the Chinese authorities will “strictly control ivory processing and trade until the commercial processing and sale of ivory and its products are eventually halted.”
“This is a very positive signal,...

 

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