A senior official at the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) says the African Union’s Fish Governance II project will help African countries, regional economic communities and regional fisheries bodies to provide consistent responses to the challenges facing the fisheries and aquaculture sector.
Motseki Hlatshwayo, the senior technical adviser for fisheries and aquaculture at the Gaborone-based SADC secretariat, made these remarks at a media training workshop on fisheries management and aquaculture development in Africa on Zanzibar’s Indian Island recently.
The workshop was part of the AUs Fish Governance II project funded by the European Union (EU).
Hlatshwayo said the sector has been impacted by a health crisis, and although it is on the road to recovery, there is much to be done to build resilience and enable actors in the fish value chain to ensure better adaptation.
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