FCWC

Stop Illegal Fishing work together with the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) on a range of capacity building topics and in particular through their communications and awareness support to the West Africa Task Force.    

The FCWC is a Regional Fisheries Body that was established in July 2006, with the main aim to facilitate cooperation in fisheries management between the member countries, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Togo. Stop Illegal Fishing and FCWC started cooperating in 2007, in respect to regional MCS training, support to the FCWC MCS Committee and brining West African evidence into international and African policy processes.

Mr Seraphin Dedi, Secretary General of the FCWC has been a SIF voting member since it became a not for profit in 2013, and served as Stop Illegal Fishing Vice Chair from 2013-2019. He works closely with Stop Illegal Fishing on the coordination of the West Africa Task Force, established in 2015 and hosted by FCWC the WATF is coordinated by TMT and Stop Illegal Fishing, and is funded by Norad. ‘The West Africa Task Force is galvanising the fight against IUU fishing in West Africa. With the region working together to share information we are making it more and more difficult for the illegal operators to get away with breaking the rules and breaking our laws.’