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Stop Illegal Fishing receives an award

Stop Illegal Fishing is proud to announce that we have been awarded third place at the IMCS Network’s Stop IUU Fishing Award Contest. The award ceremony took place on the 20 February 2014 at the Fourth Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop (GFETW) in Costa Rica. Stop Illegal Fishing Chairperson Geofrey Nanyaro and Coordinator Per Erik Bergh accepted the award on behalf of all those who have contributed to the success of Stop Illegal Fishing over the last seven years. ‚ 

Geofrey and Per Erik were able to share the work and experiences of Stop Illegal Fishing with the other attendees and to thank key partners that support our work including: the African Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Planning and Coordinating Agency, the Partnership for African Fisheries, the UK government’s Department for International Development and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Stop Illegal Fishing was acknowledged as being effective in coordinating approaches, influencing policies, building capacity and providing tools and strategies required to tackle illegal fishing at national, regional and international levels. It was noted that partnerships with governments, regional and continental organisations, civil society, monitoring control and surveillance practitioners, NGOs, intergovernmental organisations and the fishing industry have put Stop Illegal Fishing in a unique position to facilitate actions against illegal fishing.‚

Stop Illegal Fishing is the NEPAD’s Working Group on illegal fishing and also a non-profit organisation.‚ It is tasked by African Governments to champion efforts to end the devastating impacts of illegal fishing across Africa, and in seven years it has made a major and unique contribution in Africa’s efforts to overcome illegal fishing.