EU and Mauritania conclude new fisheries agreement
ANNONCER
Negotiations between the European Union and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania towards renewing the bilateral agreement on sustainable fisheries have been concluded.
This replaces the 2008 agreement, strengthening the political partnership between the EU and Mauritania that has a background of several decades of fisheries co-operation.
The new agreement comes after a long negotiation, which took place in a phase of reform of Mauritania’s fisheries management and incorporates the priorities of the new national sectoral strategy recently adopted.
According to the EU Commission, the Implementation Protocol accompanying the new agreement was concluded for a period of five years and aims at a gradual alignment of the fishing opportunities offered to EU vessels operating in Mauritanian waters with their actual activity, taking into account the best scientific advice in the context of increased monitoring of the state of the fisheries resources concerned.