Bruwer, Carina (2025) Foreign fishing vessels plunder Namibia’s horse mackerel.
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The country’s rich stock is being illegally harvested by foreign-flagged vessels licensed to fish in Angolan waters. Just past midnight, Namibia’s fisheries monitoring centre in Walvis Bay notices that a vessel near the Namibia-Angola border has stopped transmitting its location. At the same time, a local fishing boat detects a foreign vessel notorious for illegal fishing entering Namibia’s waters, and the country’s navy and fisheries department are alerted. Calls to the vessel’s flag state remain unanswered. Without a patrol vessel nearby, the foreign ship escapes. This scenario is common on the Namibia-Angola border, says an anonymous fishing industry representative. He says their vessels regularly report suspicious ships, but no action follows, often due to limited resources. Although Namibia’s waters are rich in valuable fish species, its horse mackerel is the country’s biggest fishery by volume. It is threatened by foreign vessels flying flags of convenience coming from Angola’s waters. In 2023, the Confederation of Namibian Fishing Associations said these ships plundered over 100 000 tonnes of fish from Namibia’s waters annually – estimated to result in N$1.5 billion (about US$81 million) in yearly revenue losses.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Namibia, Fishing Vessels, Fishing Boat, Monitoring, Illegal Fishing, Fish Species, Fishing Industry, IUU, Fish Stock, Overfishing, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2025 10:36 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2025 10:36 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/22493 |
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