Morocco and Mauritania have renewed fisheries cooperation agreement. The two countries, both members of the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF), signed a deal to extension to promote the sustainable development of their marine fisheries and aquaculture sub-sectors through 2024.
Morocco Minister of Agriculture Mohamed Sadiki and Mauritania Minister of Agriculture Mohamed Abidine Mayif signed the agreement in Mauritania’s capital of Nouakchot, on the sidelines of the first session of the joint Moroccan-Mauritanian Commission on Fisheries and Aquaculture, Morocco.
The deal is set to establish past commitments between the two countries to partner in key areas such as capacity building in marine fisheries, scientific and technological research, aquaculture, and sustainable exploitation of fisheries shared by Morocco and Mauritania.
Cooperation
The two countries have also agreed to work together to eliminate illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, achieve efficiency in maritime salvage processes, and combat pollution in partnership with industry experts and the private sector.
An additional agreement was signed between the National Institute of Fisheries Research (INRH) and the Mauritanian Institute of Oceanographic Research and Fisheries to promote bilateral cooperation in the field of fisheries research.
In the first quarter of 2022, during the eighth session of the Moroccan-Mauritanian Joint High Commission, the two countries signed agreements relating to a wide array of business sectors, including agriculture, animal production and health, fisheries and aquaculture, environmental protection and sustainable development, tourism, standardization and improvement of quality in the industrial sector, and more.
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