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In November, 2021, five towns along the Somali coast held community meetings to discuss phase two of the Fisheries Data Collection Working Group. 

Secure Fisheries facilitated a three day workshop on co-management and ecosystem approaches to fisheries management (EAFM) for the Puntland Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resource (MFMR)  staff in Bosaso on November 14-16, 2021.

Secure Fisheries’ senior research associate, Paige Roberts, and researcher, Colleen Devlin, participated in two sessions of the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions’ (CASS) 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting.

Delegates from the Federal government and five federal member states attended: Galmudug, Hirshabelle, Benadir Regional Administration, Southwest State, and Jubaland.

The science is clear: fuel and other fisheries subsidies to the world’s distant water fishing nations causes overfishing and threatens global seafood supplies.

Secure Fisheries facilitated meetings with government stakeholders in the regional capitals of Hargeisa and Garowe in August, then in the fishing communities in September and October, respectively. About 62 participants took part in the consultation meeting in Zeila district, while 40 participants a...