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How Illegal Fishing Hampers Somalia’s Economic Growth
How Illegal Fishing Hampers Somalia’s Economic Growth

July 11, 2020

Somalia with an estimated fishery production potential of over 800,000 tonnes per annum barely derives sufficient rev...

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Kenya confiscates, destroys smuggled fish from Somalia
Kenya confiscates, destroys smuggled fish from Somalia

April 30, 2020

Kenya’s suspension of seafood trade with Somalia through the Indian Ocean routes has not been lifted, and anyone caug...

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Somalia: Fairfishing – Turning pirates into fishermen
Somalia: Fairfishing – Turning pirates into fishermen

February 19, 2020

Behind a thriving fisheries industry in Somalia are the spirited efforts of a Danish-Somali NGO. Fairfishing has not ...

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Somalia gives up its fishing rights to China
Somalia gives up its fishing rights to China

December 29, 2018

At a time when local fishermen in Somalia are struggling to compete with foreign vessels that are depleting fishing s...

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Somalia: Foreign fleets plundered Somalia’s fish
Somalia: Foreign fleets plundered Somalia’s fish

December 20, 2017

Somalia was at war with itself. The Siad Barre government, which had taken power in a coup in 1969, fell…

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Somalia: Bossaso – Training women to strengthen fishing communities
Somalia: Bossaso – Training women to strengthen fis...

October 26, 2017

Bossaso, 17 October 2017 – Canab Mumin Farax fled Mogadishu 16 years ago at the height of the civil war…

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