Somalia’s National Communication Workshop (15-16 October 2023)

PERSGA organized a National Communication Workshop on the SFISH project in collaboration with the National Focal Point (Ministry of Environment and Climate Change), during 15-16 November 2023, in Mogadishu, Somalia.  The main objectives of this workshop were to: 1. raise the level of the awareness of different stakeholders on the Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and; 2. to enhance their engagement in combating IUU fishing, protection of fish spawning aggregations/sites and reduction/avoidance of fishery by-catch in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region.

Thirty participants, affiliated to governmental and no-governmental sectors, attended the workshop.  These sectors included Ministry of Fishery, Ministry of Transport and Fishery Associations and Environmental NGOs.  More than third of these participants were females affiliated to governmental and non-governmental sectors. At the end of the workshop, some participants suggested and recommended activities for development of the management of IUU fishing within the SFISH Project

Video showing activities of the workshop