Publications
Below are the most recent CECAF publications. Publications are categorized into four types:
Reports |
Technical and extra-ordinary documents |
CECAF/ECAF Series |
Serial publications |
Statutory meetings |
Regular Committee Meetings and Scientific Sub-Committee meetings |
Working group meetings |
Small Pelagic North, Small Pelagic South, Demersal Species North, Demersal Species South and Artisanal Fisheries working groups |
Recent documents
This document reports on the sixth meeting of the CECAF Artisanal Fisheries Working Group (AFWG) held in Accra, Ghana from 1 to 3 October 2019. After a period of inactivity, the AFWG revised and updated its terms of reference as agreed at the Seventh Session of the Scientific Sub-Committee in 2015. The overall objective of the Working Group is to improve regional knowledge on artisanal fisheries of CECAF member countries. The Sixth Session had significant results contributing to the implementation of the Group's work plan agreed during the Fifth Session in 2018. Participants discussed the various proposals presented at the meeting related to artisanal fisheries indicators and data collection methods, definition and characterization of artisanal fisheries and prioritized artisanal fisheries studies to be conducted. Further, the working group achieved considerable progress with the progress of the Action Plan also assessed and recommendations for the continuation of the planned activities were made.
This document is an independent study to identify different options in support of an improved functioning of the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) including a cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Its focus is on the financial and capacity-building dimensions, since all indications are that CECAF is performing irreplaceable regional fisheries research application and fisheries management functions. However, it is doing this with limited capacity and finance. CECAF is tasked with providing advice that promotes the sustainable utilization of the living marine resources within its area of competence by the proper management and development of the fisheries and fishing operations. The key questions for this assignment centred upon evaluating the future institutional and financing options that would best allow it to achieve this.
This document is the final workshop report for the inception meeting of the CECAF-PESCAO project “Improved fisheries governance in West Africa” held at the Volta Hotel in Akosombo, Ghana from 24 to 26 April 2018. A total of thirty four participants from nine Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) Member countries and representatives from the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC), EAF-Nansen Programme, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO Regional Office for Africa, DEMERSTEM Project, Instituto Espanol de Oceanografid Oceanografia (IEO), West Africa Non-State Actors for Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (WANSAFA), Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (CSRP), and Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA) attended the meeting to develop and agree on the project workplan.
The nineteenth meeting of the FAO Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish off Northwest Africa was held in Casablanca, Morocco, from 8–13 July 2019. The meeting was organized by FAO in collaboration with the National Institute of Fisheries Research (INRH) of Morocco. Participants were funded through their respective institutions with support from the EAF-Nansen Programme. The INRH hosts supported local meeting costs. Altogether 23 scientists from five countries, in addition to the EU and FAO, participated. Ms Aziza Lakhnigue, INRH, Chaired the session. A first editing of the report was made by the participants of the Working Group. Final technical editing was done by Aziza Lakhnigue, Ana Maria Caramelo and Merete Tandstad. We are grateful to Jessica Fuller for assistance in the final editing of this document.
This document is the final report of the twenty-second session of the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF), held in Libreville, Gabon from 17 to 19 September 2019. Major topics discussed were: (i) action on recommendations from the 21st session; (ii) main outcomes of the eighth session of the Scientific Sub-Committee (SSC); (iii) the independent cost-benefit assessment for improved directions of CECAF; (iv) improvement of data quality and assessment models; (v) CECAF rules and procedures (vi) the EU-funded PESCAO project Improved regional fisheries governance in west Africa; (vii) matters regarding the EAF-Nansen programme; (viii) and other matters including the CECAF Programme of Work for 2019-2020, and other ongoing activities.