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MOROCCO 1980. West Africa's Fisheries

1980 (exact date unknown). Casablanca, Morocco. A carpenter works on a small fishing boat aided by a young apprentice at Essaouira, a fishing port south of Casablanca.

01/01/1980

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Unique ID UF1WE0

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.(FAO) has launched a special programme for the development and management of fisheries in 200-mile exclusive economic zones (EEZ) of developing coastal states. In West Africa these include Morocco, Senegal and Ghana - some of the leading fishery nations in the region. West Africa, from Morocco to the Democratic Republic of Congo, is served by FAO?s Committee for Eastern Atlantic Fisheries (CECAF), based in Dakar and funded by UNDP. One of CECAF's continuing tasks has been to harmonise fishery statistics and to provide technical guidance in evaluating fish stocks for more rational exploitation. Most of the region's total catch of about 3.1 million tonnes had previously been caught by foreign vessels, mainly from the USSR, Poland , Spain. Republic of Korea and France. With the establishment of EEZ?s the foreign share of the catch has dropped, especially the Soviet catch, while that of local countries has increased in overall terms.