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Mandate:

• The Directorate for Sea Fishing is responsible for formulating and implementing State policy on artisanal and industrial sea fishing.

Main activities:

• Formulate, implement and monitor sea fishery development plans;
• Promote cooperation in sea fishing, oversee the implementation and monitoring of fishing agreements at the subregional, regional and international levels;
• Supervise the formulation and application of laws and regulations relating to sea fishing practice;
• Supervise the formulation and implementation of sea fishing development projects and programmes;
• Ensure the collection, processing and publication of sea fishing statistics;
• Design, support and monitor the management of landing and processing areas for fish products;
• Assist and oversee the improvement of professional sea fishing organizations; 
• Test and disseminate the technical equipment and research outcomes associated with sea fishing.

Competencies:

• The Directorate has its own veterinary surgeons, oceanographic vets, engineers, fishery technicians and agents, economists, sociologists, specialists in education and grass roots organizations, planners, computer scientists, documentation specialists, a lawyer, managers and an administrative assistant who all have many years of experience in the sector.

Providing expertise to other countries or institutions:

Providing reference substances/services/training to other countries or institutions:

• Tunisian visit to the construction site of fishing docks funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA);
• Delegation visits from Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Gabon in the interests of joint management

Collaboration with FAO and other institutions and organizations 

• JICA support for the development of two landing docks  
• Financing from Morocco (Ministry of Agriculture and Sea Fishing, the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Mohamed VI Foundation for Sustainable Development and the Attijari Wafa Bank) to develop a landing site in Soumbédioune (Dakar)
• FAO with the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) project;
• FAO: support for the drafting of the sectoral policy paper for the development of fishing and aquaculture (2016- 2023)
• European Union support through the Technical Assistance to the Senegal Sustainable Fisheries Management Programme (ADUPES) through shrimp and octopus fishery development plans 
• Implementation of the World Bank’s West Africa Regional Fisheries Project (PRAO) in the south of Senegal 
• Collaborative Management for a Sustainable Fisheries Future (COMFISH) supported by thee United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on the Petite Côte
• Support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through the GO WAMER  (West African Marine Ecoregion) in certain maritime areas 
• International Commission for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
• Subregional Fisheries Commission (CSRP) (joint management of fish resources by 7 coastal states)

Knowledge dissemination - conferences, meetings and publications:

• Production of statistical reports on fishing and annual activity reports. From 2016, there will be a monitoring and assessment report on activities, projects and programmes.

National Directorate created by Decree N° 002466 of 19 April 2006 on the organization and operation of the Directorate for Sea Fishing made up of three Divisions and associated offices.

• Governmental arrangements and international commitments:

These mainly take the form of fishing partnership agreements:

• Mauritania: partnership agreements
• Cape Verde: agreements and protocol on implementation
• Guinea Bissau: fishing agreement
• Russian Federation: cooperation agreement
• European Union (partnership agreement on sustainable fishing (2014- 2019)  for the exploitation of tuna resources and certain deep-sea demersal species), monitoring of an implementation protocol   
• Subregional and regional economic integration agencies (New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), WAEMU, ECOWAS)

Possible arrangements:

• Organization of national and international workshops, exchange visits and secondment in the following areas:

Potential activities:

• Fishery development
• Joint fishery management
• Development of processing sites and landing docks
• Product development
• Management of fishing boat fleet  

Dr Mamadou Goudiaby, Director of Maritime Fishing
Telephone: 77 022 79 98
E-mail:[email protected]

Elisabeth Mbaye Sow, Head of Gender Office/DPM
Telephone: 00221 77 154 19 51/ 70 658 47 62

E-mail: [email protected]