Seychelles and Mauritius have extended an existing bilateral fisheries agreement for 60 days that will see the increase in license fees and a new environmental and research fee, said a top government official on Tuesday.
The extension of the agreement is one of the outcomes of a five-day meeting between Seychelles and Mauritius. The meeting was headed by the two countries’ fisheries ministers, Jean-Francois Ferrari from Seychelles and Mauritius’ Sudheer Maudhoo.
The extension of the existing agreement was needed to ensure fishing activities being carried out by either Seychelles or Mauritius in the other party’s waters are not interrupted.
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