UPDATES & RESOURCES

The ‘MCS Practitioners Introductory Guides’ to support government and non-government personnel in fishing vessel recognition

The Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC), a fisheries intergovernmental organization in Ghana, will be receiving a visit from a High-Level Delegation from the Government of Norway, led by Ms. Bjørg Sandkjær, the Norwegian State Secretary for International Development, and Ms. Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director-General of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), in the presence of Duncan Copeland, Executive Director of Trygg Mat Tracking

Global Fishing Watch, Trygg Mat Tracking, Oceana, Ocean Unite and the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance are partnering to create a risk assessment tool to help insurers identify vessels at risk of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing Data-powered tool will help prevent vessels at high risk of involvement in IUU fishing operations from accessing insurance Research shows that reducing access to insurance discourages vessels from participating in criminal activiti

Four African nations and a regional fisheries organization are harnessing new technology to strengthen port controls and combat illegal fishing. The international non-profits, Global Fishing Watch and Trygg Mat Tracking are partnering with Senegal, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya and the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) in a pilot project to provide authorities with satellite tracking data, analysis and training needed to assess a fishing vessel’s re

Accra, Ghana (13 – 17 September 2021) – The Fisheries Committee of the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) will host a five-day Task Force meeting in Accra, Ghana to discuss interagency cooperation and regional collaboration since the last meeting in Liberia in September 2019. The meeting is the tenth regional meeting since the first in April 2015 also in Ghana and will again bring together Directors of Fisheries and Heads of MCS of the six FCWC Member States and other fisheri

Key equipment is being provided to each of the FCWC Member States to support their national and regional MCS efforts in 2021

Regional Monitoring Control and Surveillance Centre launches in the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) region

We are very pleased to announce that Zahor El Kharousy has joined the Board of TMT, bringing with him extensive experience in Tanzanian, East African and international cooperation in fisheries management. Zahor has previously served as Director of the Tanzania Deep Sea Fishing Authority, taking an active role in the establishment and operations of the FISH-i Africa Task Force and representing Tanzania at the IOTC, IWC, and the Maputo Declaration. He is currently the Managing

Long Beach, CA (February 1, 2021) – Fisheries intelligence organization Trygg Mat Tracking (TMT) gained approval to become an official Observer to the International Monitoring Control and Surveillance Network. TMT is the first Observer to be welcomed to the Network in 2021 and the fourth official Observer granted IMCS Network Observer Status in the past year. TMT will make available its extensive fisheries intelligence and analytical expertise, offer its SPOTLIGHT briefing se