Capacity building

Well-informed, engaged fisheries professionals are vital to ensuring an end to illegal fishing. Working at the front line often in difficult circumstances fisheries inspectors and MCS officers play a crucial role in increasing compliance in the fishery sector, identifying illegal behavior, bringing criminals to justice.  

Building human and institutional capacity has been a core part of Stop Illegal Fishing’s activity throughout Africa. Training events have been conducted in Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire,Ghana, Liberia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Tanzania with participants from more than 30 African countries.

Stop Illegal Fishing has organised a range of training events on port State measures, flag State responsibilities, overall monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS), community monitoring, national plans of action IUU and inter-agency cooperation in MCS.

Building human capacity enables better handling of the complex cases that result from the multi jurisdictional nature of fisheries violations and fisheries crimes.

Recent Posts

Stop Illegal Fishing Commitment to SADC MCSCC

On 9 March 2023, Stop Illegal Fishing (SIF) delivered a message of support...

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The SADC Fisheries Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Coordination Centre – set to enter into force in April 2023

Gaborone, 9 March 2023. The Republic of Botswana became the eleventh signatory of...

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Angola: Training in port State measures

The Nelson Mandela University in cooperation with Stop Illegal Fishing (SIF) conducted training...

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FCWC 14th Session of the Conference of Ministers – fisheries management for a sustainable blue economy

The Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) 14th Session...

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What impact are we having?

The Issues

One in four fish in Africa is caught illegally, this threatens the sustainability of fish stocks, damages the ecosystem and deprives governments of income and people of livelihoods.

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Our Approach

Creating change by informing policy and practice, our hands on experience and investigative work means we are often the first to spot new trends and find ways to challenge these.

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Our Initiatives

Illegal fishing is a complex issue that requires multifaceted responses. Stop Illegal Fishing are working with a range of organisations to bring about change.

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