UNOC 2022 : Final declaration of Small-scale fishers
Friday, July 1st 2022, Lisbon...
Seafarers’ Day 2022: CAOPA calls for the ratification and implementation of ILO C188
Seafarers’ Day is celebrated every year on 25 June. This year, 2022, the theme chosen by International Maritime Organization (IMO) is: “Your voyages – past and present, share your sea journeys”. Seafarers all have different backgrounds, but all face similar challenges. The ai...
Subsidies to artisanal fisheries: CAOPA and LMMA call on the WTO
The WTO negotiations on fisheries subsidies have been going on for more than twenty years, and we appreciate the constant engagement of the OACPS negotiators on this issue....
Senegal: Publication of a study report on the challenges facing artisanal fishing zones
Mbour -Senegal – March 31, 2022- As part of the celebration of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) decreed by the United Nations General Assembly, the African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA) has commissione...
Senegal: OAK Foundation meets with artisanal fisheries stakeholders for possible collaboration
The African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA) received on March 25, 2022, at its headquarters in Mbour (Senegal), Ms. Anne S. Henshaw PhD, Environment Program Manager of the OAK Foundation and Ms. Justine Dossa of Ocenas5....
Tangier/Morocco: Declaration of support to artisanal fisheries and aquaculture
The Ministerial Conference on Fisheries Cooperation among African States bordering the Atlantic Ocean (COMHAFAT) organized from 22 to 24 February 2022, in Tangier (MOROCCO) a conference on “artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, major components of an inclusive socio-economic development”....
Guinea: CAOPA presents the findings of the study on the challenges of artisanal fishing zones
A study on the issues related to the regulation of artisanal fishing zones is initiated by the African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA) with the support of the Coalition for Fair Fisheries Agreements (CAPE) and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SS...
Financing in small-scale fisheries: CAOPA listens to professionals
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: Celebration of World Fisheries Day 21 November 2021
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....
CAOPA congratulates Mauritania and Seychelles on the publication of their first FITI report
PRESS RELEASE Mbour/Senegal: Tuesday, 29 June 2021- In May 2021, the Republic of Seychelles produced its first report under the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI). This report was followed a month later by Mauritania’s first report....