CAOPA organised on 11 December 2021 in Saly, Senegal, a workshop to share and reflect on financing adapted to the activities of women in the artisanal fishing sector....
PRESS RELEASE Mbour, December 09, 2021 – African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA) has been following with attention, lately, a situation of misunderstanding between some artisanal fishermen of Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and the Coast Guard....
CAOPA STATEMENT It is read by Isaac Nana KWEIGYAH, of the CAOPA Youth Cell, Ghana. Saly/ Senegal, 21th November 2021 “The International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) is launched!...
Mbour-Saly-, November 17, 2021: The African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA) celebrates the World Fisheries Day 2021, from 19 to 21 November 2021....
On the sidelines of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26), the President of the African Confederation of Artisanal Fisheries Organisations (CAOPA), Mr Gaoussou GUEYE, made a statement on trawling. In this statement, he denounced the impacts of bottom trawling on African artisanal f...
The virtual workshop to launch the activities of the project “Towards the Sustainable Management of the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) – initial support to the implementation of the Strategic Action Program (SAP)” started on 4 November and will end on 5 November 2021...
Au Sénégal, le secteur des pêches est une composante essentielle du développement rural. Il joue un rôle stratégique et de soutien à la croissance de l’économie nationale en contribuant notamment à la réduction du déficit de la balance des paiements et du chômage....
The African Confederation of Artisanal Fisheries Organisations (CAOPA) organised a webinar entitled ‘Who owns the fish?’ on 5 October 2021. This videoconference, which brought together several panellists from the African and European continents, addressed issues related to fisheries, particularl...
The African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA), plans to organize a videoconference on Tuesday, 05 October 2021. Entitled “Who does the fish belong to?”, this webinar will be moderated by five experts and will address questions on the main asp...
The Gambia hosted from 17 to 18 September 2021, a training workshop for artisanal fisheries professionals from Senegal and The Gambia. Under the theme: “Training on management of resources: Case of small pelagic“, the workshop was organized by the African Confederation of Professio...