Somalia has declared that illegal fishing will not be tolerated in Somalia, saying the country’s small fisher community has been facing threat for years as a result of illegal fishing.
Foreign fishing ships, trawlers and speed boats had been carrying out fishing in waters of the horn nation for years.
A report by the campaign group Secure Fisheries in 2017 said up to 2.4 million tones of fish have been caught in Somali waters illegally in the last 60 years.
Most commonly, the fleets hail from Iran, Yemen and as far as Southeast Asia. However they do not work alone, and are often only able to function thanks to support from Somalia’s notoriously corrupt state institutions
Four decades of civil war has left the East African nation’s institutions weak and disorganized.
In a statement, Somalia’s Attorney General Suleiman Mohamed Mohamud has warned that foreign vessels fishing in the country’s waters will be confiscated.
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