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Curb $70m illegal fishing, Reps tell NIMASA, Navy The Punch
Published 6 May 2021
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency to put measures in place to curb illegal fishing activities in Nigeria’s waters.
The House also urged the Federal Government to review its licensing policy ‘that tends to favour foreign trawlers at the expense of their local counterparts and encourage indigenous investments into this agricultural sector’.
Also, the lawmakers urged the government to prevail on the Gulf of Guinea Commission to urgently introduce a legally-binding framework to check excessive fishing or overfishing in the region.