Hassan Abdullahi Mao

The government of Somalia gave fishing license to the number of chinese vessels fishing in Somali territorial sea, the biggest question that every person is asking is, what do we exchange to our fish and what prevents  these ships to transgress the rules and regulations as well as the agreement, another surprising things in this issue is, standardly, when you are giving license to a fishing vessel you should do the following by keeping your interests; the gears, species and fishing area must already be clear and there should be inspector on board who gives daily report to the responsible institution even if we agree those who would monitor as Somalis?. Sometimes the vessels should Moure to the ports for taking basic things like fuel and so on from the country that gave the license, they may argue the vessels are fearing pirates and we do not have big ports, is it acceptable justification?. The fishing vessels must sometimes be puzzled to hire employees from the country giving the l...

  Generally, Somalia locates the horn of Africa and its strategic area having the longest inland coastline in Africa. Somalia is one of the country that are highly fished illegally for the foreign vessels due to lack of efficient government which has capability to control its territorial sea perfectly, after the collapse of strong central government of Somalia in 1991 everything became topsy-turvy and the protection of the sea has lost and many foreign countries started to advantage this gap by fishing the Somali sea illegally using abnormal and banned gears which destroy the environment and ecosystem, in addition some ships process the fishes they catch on board and then sell to the world. sometimes, they dump or throw wastes in the sea regardless to its damage to the marine life and environment. these activities are negatively affecting many things including  environment and local fishers. the impact of illegal fishing to local fishers. the illegal fishing vessels use very l...