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Gambia News : Senegal, Gambia sign fishing agreement
Gambian Fisheries and Water Resources Secretary Yankuba Touray has said
that fishing had become an important element in the global market place
in response to the dynamic food industry.
He made the remark here Monday at a joint meeting of Senegalese and
Gambian officials to mark the signing of a fishing agreement between
both countries.
Touray said "It’s in this context that the
fisheries resources can no longer sustain the growing international
demand for fisheries resources."
According to him, it is against
this background that in 1991 the committee on fi sheries called for the
development of a new concept which could lead into the development of
responsible and sustained fisheries.
He pointed out that the
Gambian Government was extremely concerned about the unsustainable
fisheries resources use and damages to the aquatic environment which n
eeded to be addressed urgently through appropriate policy and
legislative reforms.
Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye, The Senegalese
Minister of State for Maritime Economy, Maritime Transport, Fisheries
and Aquaculture, noted that Gambia and Senegal were linked by history,
blood and culture and the relation between the two countries was
strongly protected by the two governments.
He added that the
Senegalese-Gambian fishing agreement was to strengthen the fisheries
industry of the two countries, noting that the two had a common fishing
understanding.
The Sub-Regional Fisheries Commissioner, Mr. Kane
Cire Amadou, revealed that his commission was established in 1985, with
the objective of harmonizing the fisheries polices since fishing had no
boundaries.
According to him, members of the commission are
Gambia, Senegal, Cape Verde, Gun iea-Bissua, Guinea, Sierra Leone and
Mauritania.
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