Adam Malima
The government is set to come up with a well-trained and equipped patrol team to curb illegal fishing in the country’s deep sea.Deputy Minister of Livestock Development and Fisheries, Adam Malima revealed this in Dodoma yesterday when responding to a supplementary question by Abia Muhama Nyabakari (Special Seats, CCM), who wanted to know government strategies to curb illegal fishing in the Tanzania’s deep sea.
The MP said Tanzania is estimated to have been loosing over US$ 220 million due to illegal fishing in the deep sea.
In his response, the minister explained that the government is fully aware of the challenge and has taken measures to address the vice.
“We are coming up with a comprehensive defense mechanism in the area, which plays an imperative role to the country’s socio-economic development,” the minister stated, without revealing the time frame for the patrol team to start its operation.
Malima said fighting illegal fishing in the deep sea is a very hectic task as perpetuators use sophisticated technologies.
“That is why we resorted to come up with new mechanism to address this challenge,” the minister stated.
Responding to the basic question on the number of tonnes of ornamental fish fished in Lake Tanganyika since companies started exporting the fish species; the minister stated that between 2009 and 2012, more than 223,000 ornamental fish were fished in the Africa’s deepest lake.
He stated that ornamental fish in Lake Tanganyika has created 44 employment opportunities for communities living along the Africa’s deepest lake.
“Most people are employed in fishing, packaging, and transporting the ornamental fish,” Malima said.
He said most of them are employed in five companies exporting ornamental fish from the lake. The companies include; Tanganyika Sunshine, Nunu Mwamba, Tanzania Cichlids, Nyavita and Rift Valley.
“Most of these companies have been licensed and they are paying 40,000/- to 60,000/- per lorry ferrying ornamental fish. They also pay some money for their licenses and part of the money collected are disbursed to responsible regions including Rukwa,” he said.
He also revealed that Muzi villagers in Kasanga ward have managed to build a dispensary following the support issued by Nunu Mwamba Company, which gave them 50kgs of cement.
Lake Tanganyika is a home to a wide-range of ornamental fish species, including trophies, petrochromis, simochromis, Lamprologus, Neolamprologus, Xenotilapia, Tanganicodus, Julidochromis, Paracyprichromis, spathodus, altolamprologus, Variabilichromis and Cyphotilapia frontosa.
Source the Guardians
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why such kind of steps has been taken by the most of countries.
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