Tanzania: Light on the horizon for fisheries sector

The sustainability of the country's fisheries resources depends on the existence of effective plans and strategies to manage appropriate harvesting methods and the proper use of those resources. The government on its part is implementing various plans and strategies, including the Third Five-Year National Development Plan (2021/22-2025/26), the CCM Manifesto (2020-2025) which aims to reform the fisheries sector. The objective is to enable fisheries to be sustainable and to enhance social welfare by providing employment, income and security, food and food security as well as boosting the national economy. Despite these good intentions and initiatives taken by the government, the fishing sector has in recent years been plagued by illegal fishing, which has been found to threaten various fish products derived from the country's fisheries resources. In response to the challenge, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa recently convened a special meeting between the Ministry of Fisheries and ...