Tanzania’s Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said that environmental experts will be sent to the southern part of the country to assess the damage done to the environment so far as a result of illegal fishing activities and thereafter introduce new measures to end the problem.
She said the government is determined to end illegal fishing in the Indian Ocean for the sustainability of the fishing population and industry.
According to her, the Indian Ocean represents an important source of income and employment for millions of Tanzanians living along the coastline.
Our ocean is the main source of our incomes, and our incomes are our lives so if we don’t use the ocean wisely, our lives will be in trouble, she said.
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