Plans for sea fisheries management needed in Morocco

Plans for sea fisheries management needed in Morocco

Morocco 15 June 2005 - 28 June 2005

Source: Arabic News The need to incept plans for the management of Moroccan sea fisheries to ensure the monitoring and the preservation of the sector's resources was highlighted by Hassan Chami, president of the Moroccan enterprises general Confederation (CGEM). Chami told the first fisheries meeting, sponsored by the Sea Industries Federation (FIM) and the CGEM, opened here Tuesday, of the problems of the sector because of over-fishing and the presence of foreign fishing boats in Moroccan waters and of the vital role of fisheries along the 3,500 km of the country's Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. ...The FAO conduct code on fishing practices is an excellent guide, which should be adopted by Morocco as a model to work out a code suiting its fisheries context, Laensar said.

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