Home Africa Namibia: Foreign fishing vessels plunder Namibia’s horse mackerel – News

Namibia: Foreign fishing vessels plunder Namibia’s horse mackerel – News

Namibia: Foreign fishing vessels plunder Namibia’s horse mackerel – News

Africa Links 24 with Carina Bruwer
Published on 2025-06-05 15:00:00

It’s past midnight and the officer manning Namibia’s fisheries monitoring centre at Walvis Bay notices that a vessel near the Namibia-Angola border has stopped transmitting its location.

At the same time, a Namibian fishing vessel’s radar detects a foreign vessel notorious for illegal fishing entering Namibia’s waters. Both the officer and the vessel alert the Namibian navy and the fisheries department at Walvis Bay.

Calls to the vessel’s flag state remain unanswered, and…

Read the Full article on The Namibian

Previous articleNigeria: Prof. Jibril Aminu dies at 85 — Africa Links 24
Next articleZimbabwe: ZANU-PF Suspends Top Chiwenga Ally Amid Rising Factional Tension – Africa Links 24