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Fisheries access in West Africa. Proceedings of two workshops held in Senegal and Mauritania Item Type Proceedings Paper Citation K. Lankester, P.S. Diouf and K. Sané (eds) 215 pp. Publisher WWF-WARPO, Senegal, Download date 24/09/2021 23:33:20 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/320 Workshops on Fisheries Access in West Africa The Promotion of Sustainable and Equitable Fisheries Access Agreements Saly Portudal, Senegal, March 2001 Regional Minimum Conditions for Access to Fisheries Zones Nouakchott, Mauritania, November 2001 Proceedings Kees Lankester Papa Samba Diouf Khady Sané e operation © ® co living apart together Colophon This report contains the proceedings of two international workshops on sustainable fisheries and access agreements. The first workshop was held in Saly Portudal, Senegal in March 2001. The second workshop was held in Nouakchott, Mauritania, in November 2001. The workshop was organised by • WWF-WARPO Marine Office, Senegal • Scomber, the Netherlands • Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC/CSRP), West Africa • Novib, The Netherlands • Fenagie-pêche, Senegal (Senegal workshop) • CBDD, Benin (Mauritania workshop) • The Mauritanian Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy (Mauritania workshop) • Ecooperation, The Netherlands (Mauritania workshop) Graphic design Dickhoff Design, Amsterdam. [email protected] Printing PlantijnCasparie, Zwolle. Cover photo Nouadhibou, Mauritania. Photo by Mme Nedwa Mochtar Nech, Mauritanie-2000. For reference purposes K. Lankester, P.S. Diouf and K. Sané (eds) 2002. Fisheries access in West Africa. Proceedings of two workshops held in Senegal and Mauritania, 2001. 215 pp. Contact Scomber Consultancy, The Netherlands, K. Lankester tel. + 31 20 612 2843; [email protected] WWF-WARPO, Senegal, P.S. Diouf tel. + 221 869 3700; [email protected] e operation CSRP/SRFC © co ® living apart together Contents Preface . 5 The Promotion of Sustainable and Equitable Fisheries Access Agreements Saly Portudal, Senegal, March 2001 Summary report of the Senegal workshop . 7 1. Objectives and context of the workshop . 6 2. Perception of fisheries agreements . 9 3. Sustainability and equity in fisheries agreements in West Africa . 12 4. Principal results and recommendations. 13 Annex 1: List of participants . 15 Annex 2: Presentations. 19 Full report of the Senegal workshop. 21 1. Objectives and context of the workshop . 22 2. Perception of fisheries agreements . 23 3. Sustainability and equity in fisheries agreements in West Africa . 38 4. Results and recommendations . 44 Workshop framework and objectives, P.S. Diouf, K. Lankester & K. Sané . 46 The Gambia fishing agreements, O.K.L. Drammeh & A.M. Cham . 51 Les intérêts des pêcheurs artisans, A. Wade - Fenagie-pêche . 60 Accords de pêche: Perception par la Commission Européenne, A. Nicolaj . 62 L’expérience Mauritanienne des Accords de Pêche, S.O. Cheikna. 65 La Guinée et les accords de pêche, M. Keïta & I. Keïta . 68 Potentiel et état d’exploitation au Sénégal, CRODT . 70 Fisheries agreements of Senegal, E.H. Cisse, B.B. Samb & P.S. Diouf . 74 L’accord Sénégal-Union Européenne et le manuel de WWF, K. Sané & P.S. Diouf . 79 L’expérience du C.N.P.S., Senegal, Mbaye Fall. 83 Managing shared stocks, S. Burns, P.S. Diouf & K. Lankester . 84 The Pacific experience and the WWF handbook, J. Tamate & G. Joseph . 90 The Pacific experience on negotiating fishing agreements, J. Tamate & G. Joseph . 93 The Harmonised Minimum Terms and Conditions, FFA-South Pacific . 98 Notes on Optimum Resource Use, TACs and Harvesting Capacity, S. des Clers. 102 Fishery Access Agreements, D. Freestone. 105 Equitable agreements for sustainable fisheries, J.-P. Troadec . 109 Regional Minimum Conditions for Access to Fisheries Zones Nouakchott, Mauritania, November 2001 Summary report of the Mauritania workshop . 117 1. Objectives and background of the workshop. 118 2. National priorities for access . 118 3. Regional and international priorities for access. 119 4. Perspectives of international organisations, NGOs and fisheries professionals . 120 5. Main results and recommendations. 121 Annex 1: List of participants . 124 Annex 2: Summary statement. 128 Full report of the Mauritania workshop. 131 1. Introduction . 131 2. Objectives and background of the workshop. 133 3. National priorities for access . 133 4. Regional and international priorities for access. 137 5. Perspectives of international organisations, NGOs and fisheries professionals . 148 6. Main results and recommendations . 150 Framework and objectives of the meeting, P.S. Diouf, K. Lankester and K. Sané . 153 Minimum conditions for the Gambia, A. Saine . 155 Minimum conditions for Guinea, I. Keïta . 159 Minimum conditions for Cape Verdes, E. Sanches . 161 Minimum conditions for Senegal, O. Ndiaye . 166 Le Centre Béninois pour le Développement Durable (CBDD), G. Abangla . 170 Point de vue des ONGs, C.A. Mahmoud, PECHECOPS. 178 Le vue du Parc National du Banc d’Arguin, M.O. Bouceif . 182 Responsible fish utilisation, A. Tall, Infopêche. 186 Harmonised minimum conditions for foreign fishing access, M.W. Lodge. 189 The regulation of access to West African fisheries, J.- P. Troadec . 196 Minimum scientific conditions for fisheries access, A. Corten . 206 Minimum regional conditions for sustainable fisheries, K. Lankester . 210 Notes . 215 Workshops on Fisheries Access in West Africa Preface The results of the two workshops in this volume would not have been achieved without the support of all co-organisers. They are all acknowledged in the colophon to this report. We would like express our thanks to the sponsors of the workshops. The Senegal workshop was financed by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (USA). The Mauritania workshop was sponsored by the Packard Foundation and the Netherlands-Benin Sustainable Development Treaty, represent- ed by CBDD-Benin and Ecooperation-Netherlands. Staff of Novib and WWF kind- ly offered their expertise and skills to run the meetings smoothly. We particularly would like to pay tribute to Mr Chérif Ould Toueileb at the Mauritania Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy, who kindly acted as the host of the second workshop in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania. He was responsible for the local organisation of the workshop and it all went very well. The two international workshops had wide local and regional participation, plus some experts to illu- strate the international perspectives. The workshops greatly gained from the Pacific experience, where the fisheries negotiations are more advanced than in West- Africa. Some colleagues were willing to travel extremely long distances to assist in this workshop. We also would like to thank the interpreters Lamine Hanne and Saliou Dia, who did an excellent job under great pressure. Lamine Hanne also translated the full reports of both workshops. We thank Mr Jasper van der Werff of Resource Analysis, who inspired the participants of the FishMan role play in Senegal as the game-leader. Finally, we thank all the participants in the two work- shops, who collectively moved the debate forward towards sustainable and fair fisheries. More workshops are planned in other regions in the world, where many of the same fisheries issues are pertinent. This report is intended to assist in future dis- cussions and decisions on sustainability and equity in fishing access. A lot of expe- rience and many ideas are offered throughout this report. We believe that it is in the long term interest of all interest groups to arrive at regulating fishing access that is solidly embedded in sustainability and fairness. These are global issues, their application needs to be dressed in the appropriate regional outfit of resource abundance, ecosystem limitations and social cohesion. We hope that all interest groups will use this report to their best abilities to ensure that future generations of mankind will still be able to enjoy future generations of marine resources that can flourish in the oceans. Kees Lankester, Papa Samba Diouf and Khady Sané 5 Summary report of the Senegal Workshop The Promotion of Sustainable and Equitable Fisheries Access Agreements Papa Samba Diouf [1], Khady Sané [2] and Kees Lankester [3] 27-29 March 2001, Saly Portudal, Senegal Introduction This workshop was organised by the Marine Conservation office in Dakar of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Novib (Dutch development NGO), Fenagie (National Federation of fisheries collectives in Senegal) and Scomber Consultancy (consultancy in The Netherlands for fisheries management and marine wildlife), with the financial support of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (USA). The workshop proper was preceded by a one-day introduction and application to ‘FishMan’. FishMan is a role-play that simulates long distance fleet fisheries in developing nations’ coastal waters in a computer network. It is designed to famil- iarise people with negotiations and the issues involved in international fisheries. Following the WWF-publication of a series of documents titled The footprint of distant water fleets on world fisheries and to animate the debate on the relationships between fisheries agreements and sustainable exploitation of marine resources, WWF sponsored the establishment of a handbook for the negotiation of fisheries access agreements by a group of internationally reputed experts. This handbook is developed to improve the existing agreements towards sustainable marine fisheries and more equity. A series of workshops, of which that in Saly Portudal (Senegal) is the