@cffacape
We are a platform of European and African-based organizations that raises awareness about the impacts of the EU-Africa fisheries arrangements on African artisanal fishing communities.
#HighSeasTreaty now in force
For SSF communities, the question isn’t whether high seas Marine Protected Areas exist but how they’re designed, since such closures could push fleets into coastal waters, stressing local stocks & SSF livelihoods.
Our article👇
www.cffacape.org/news-blog/be...
EU-Mauritania SFPA
Starting early 2026, negotiations on future protocol should focus on:
🐟Priority access to small-scale fisheries (SSF)
🌍Regional and participatory management of small pelagics
🤝Sectoral support oriented towards SSF
Read CFFA's recommendations👇
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A new year has started and we're back with many ideas 💡 on how to continue supporting small-scale fisheries’ advocacy 🛶🐟
Yet, we cannot do that without looking back and celebrating 🥳
Here's our summary 👉 tinyurl.com/ymky4uwy
@ssfnicole.bsky.social @martacavalle.bsky.social
The @wto.org agreement on #FisheriesSubsidies entered into force🚢🐟
Yet questions remain - we address them in our latest policy brief
🔍What is still unaddressed
⚖️Costs and opportunities for developing countries
🛶Impacts on small-scale fisheries
Read it now👉 t.ly/Kibng
The @ec.europa.eu is about to launch the West Africa Sustainable Ocean Programme (WASOP) with regional partners ECOWAS, SRFC and FCWC 🌊🐟
As regional fisheries management gains momentum, we look at the ecological gains and social impacts of harmonising biological rest👇
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🌍Inshore exclusion zones: African countries recognise the role small-scale fishers play in food security and biodiversity conservation 🍽️🐟
Here’s how the @ec.europa.eu can support priority access & co-management in coastal waters for artisanal fishers 👇
@ssfnicole.bsky.social @caneurope.org
Deadly shipwreck in Mauritania, dubious European interests 🤔
In September, a Spanish-origin trawler flying a Mauritanian flag, sank after a collision with a factory ship owned by a Maltese company with a Gambian flag 🛳️
What of EU's responsibility?
Read our article 👉 cffacape.org/publications...
’The root cause of the problems is the rapidly growing popularity of farmed fish among wealthy consumers in Europe.’ says Beatrice Gorez from @cffacape.bsky.social
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Dormant but not dead 😴
@ec.europa.eu lists the EU-Gambia fishing agreement as "dormant"
We argue that fishing agreements should still be used for continued:
🤝Dialogue on sustainable fisheries
🔬Joint Research
👮♀️Regional control & surveillance
💵Coordinate donor support
+ info: tinyurl.com/3p6mrvpn
🚨The EU's future budget (2028-34) is underway:
What are the priorities for financing the EU's external fisheries policy?
💰Allocate 100% of SFPA contributions to sectoral support
🙋Support participatory management of small pelagic species
Read CFFA's recommendations👉 t.ly/a0M48
📢The EU-Seychelles negotiations for the next fishing protocol start TODAY
Small-scale fishers' demands:
🚢Priority access for semi-industrial
💵A FAD "polluter-pays" policy
♀️Gender-disaggregated data
🤝A say in sectoral funds use
👴Backpay for the pension fund
Our policy brief: tinyurl.com/4vnx7v4f
Seychellois small-scale fishers are seeking to revive their sector by investing in women and youth.
We tell you their stories on how they developed a course on fishing business for women and how they sensitize school-age kids about their profession👇
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For its new external fisheries strategy, the EU must ensure policy coherence and prioritize food security, stakeholder participation, and human rights.
📢 Read CFFA’s recommendations. t.ly/cOf3v
@ec.europa.eu
Subcommittee on Fish Trade: 16 CSOs warn of the impacts of industrial aquaculture: pollution, coastal land grabbing, threats to small-scale fisheries and local communities. Read the statement👇
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@animallaweurope.bsky.social @seasatrisk.bsky.social @animalpolicyint.bsky.social
Liberian fishers' struggle to protect their Inshore Exclusive Zone from competition continues... 💪🚢🛶
In a letter to their government they oppose a new fisheries management plan which would allow trawlers in their reserved area
More info 👉 cffacape.org/publications...
@ec.europa.eu @giz.de
Ten years after its launch, the Fisheries Transparency Initiative shows that transparency, stronger governance, greater recognition of small-scale fisheries, and improved dialogue among stakeholders are a powerful driver of change.
Read our article here👉 t.ly/mEyul
@fiti-global.bsky.social
Did you know women ♀️ are present at every stage of the fisheries 🐟 value chain in Africa?
Find out how the EU can support them at the event we co-organise with MEPs @melissacamara.bsky.social Fourreau, Sargiacomo & Do Nascimento Cabral
Register TODAY!👉 t.ly/GhxAc pic.x.com/Jsw3ZSxzSi
23/ Francisco Marí @brotfuerdiewelt.bsky.social recalls the EU coherence obligation under the Lisbon Treaty:
“EU food and trade policies are not coherent with development goals. Many deals signed by the EU with African countries it has had severe impacts on their local economies”.
22/ Gaoussou Gueye calls the @ec.europa.eu DG MARE to support priority access for SSF to small pelagics, key for food security:
“Salmon is fed large quantities of fishmeal from West Africa! It’s not possible that a European consumer indirectly eats in half an hour our yearly recommended intake”
21/ Gaoussou Gueye, president of Afrifish-net, the Pan-African platform of non-state actors in fisheries, calls for an area reserved for small-scale fisheries:
“We play an extremely important role in feeding our countries, especially the poorest populations”
20/ Juan Manuel Trujillo @etf-europe.bsky.social insists: “Those member states whose fleets benefit from fisheries agreements (SFPAs) should especially ratify these conventions and at the same time the EU should improve the budget for improving working conditions and security under SFPAs”
19/ Rosalie Tukker, from Europêche reminds the audience that only 8 EU member states have ratified the ILO convention of work in fisheries (C188): “It is important for generational change: we should create conditions for young people to stay and also to enter the fishing sector”
18/ Martin Orth @ec.europa.eu employment and social affairs reminds that fishing is one of the most hazardous jobs in the world and presents measures the EU implements to improve working conditions, including for non-EU citizens on board EU fishing vessels: "We strengthened provisions under SFPAs"
17/ Session 4 of EU Long-Distance Advisory Council (LDAC) seminar on external dimension of the EU Common Fisheries Policy talks about how the EU can reinforce food security, local livelihoods and sustainable practices in the fishing value chain, chaired by @judaudu.bsky.social
@ejfoundation.org
16/ For Roberto Cesari DG Maritime affairs the EU IUU regulation is the best instrument: “It is built up on a real cooperation between @ec.europa.eu, Member States and @europarl.europa.eu and on dialogue with third countries: there is a reasonable level of results when we apply the carding system”
15/ Arne Kinds, post-doctorate, University of Santiago de Compostela, shares the results of research of 7000 fishing vessels ownership globally:
“Having public high quality data is essential to good governance, but you also need to be able to analyse it to support management decisions”
14/ For Roberto Alonso, from ANFACO-CECOPESCA, IUU fishing is not so much about labelling, but about standards:
“We have the most competitive industry in the world: we are able to operate with traceability, but we cannot compete with IUU caught fish”.
13/ Ignacio Fresco (2nd from the left) @oceanaeurope.bsky.social says we must look at the beneficiary state or the owner state responsibility (on top of flag, port, market state resp.): "We are good at looking at what our fleets are doing but not so much at our citizens who are profiting from #IUU"
12/ The executive director of the European Fisheries Control Agency, Susan Steele, recalls that “Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is a race to the bottom: everyone suffers, even those that are performing IUU fishing, because the stocks will be gone”
11/ Good morning Vigo! ☀️
We continue at the Puerto de Vigo the Long Distance Advisory Council (LDAC) seminar on the EU #CommonFisheriesPolicy evaluation –the external dimension.
Session 3 - how to reinforce the fight against Illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries #IUU chaired by Emil Remisz