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All eyes are glued to the radar screen in anticipation of the cyclone season in Madagascar, and this year the authorities and their humanitarian partners hope not be caught off guard.
The state of preparedness for a natural disaster in Malawi's flood-prone areas as well as other locales is coming under intense scrutiny ahead of the expected annual rise in the rivers during the rainy season.
MEMBERS of the East African Community are set to sign an agreement that will set up an organisation to manage Lake Victoria.
IN response to the call for increased local private sector investment in the oil and gas sector of the Nigerian economy, a leading marine and oil services company, Fymak, launched a new vessel MV Chinyelugo to support offshore activities in the industry in Lagos.
THE fishing industry and the Namibian Maritime and Fisheries Institute (Namfi) have agreed to help all maritime students get the "sea time" needed to become qualified mariners.
The collection of data on the fisheries of The Gambia started from the 1950s to the late 1970s. According to data collected by the Daily Observer column Fisheries, manuscripts were prepared in 1980, mostly by outside observers on short visits to the Gambia.
The United Nations humanitarian wing has dispatched an emergency team to western Kenya, where floods following heavy rainfall have forced more than 7,000 families out of their homes and submerged entire villages.
FISH quotas set by the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources for the new season will remain unchanged from this year for horse mackerel and rock lobster, while the quota for deep-sea red crab will go up.
The newly constructed micro-dam in Bet Gebriel, Adi-Quala sub-zone, at an expenditure of about 2 million Nakfa was inaugurated recently.
Uganda government is pushing for a regional policy to oblige investors in the fishing industry to immediately start contributing to fish breeding to save particular species that earn big on the world market from extinction.
The waters off the coast of Somalia have become increasingly dangerous as pirates hijack commercial ships packed with food, weapons and ammunition. More than 60 ships have been attacked in 2008, and ransom money paid to the pirates over time has grown to more than $100 million.
Cross-border fishing conflicts on Lake Victoria are set to end now that Kenya and Uganda have agreed to draw their boundaries.
Delta State government said yesterday that a Ukrainian vessel suspected to be carrying toxic wastes, has entered the country and is on its way to berth on its shores with the intent of dumping its hazardous substance.
Preferential warming in Africa as a result of climate change is expected to increase the variability of rainfall, flow of rivers and levels of lakes, reducing their reliability as sources of freshwater.
The fisheries resources of the Waters of the Gambia are believed to be rich in terms of species abundance and diversity. The first survey of its fisheries potentials was carried out with the assistance of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in 1964 and 1965.
Scientific revelations that Lake Chad is bound to dry up completely in 40 years time has created panic in the minds of some Nigerian administrators and academicians, who last year at Maiduguri, decided to set up a study group comprising professors from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, United States of America, policy makers, legislators, chief executives as well as staff of 35 ...
Fish catches from Lake Victoria, which jointly fetch Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania about $300 million annually, have dropped by as much as 29 per cent since 2005, according to the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation.
The Akagera River Regional Project, through the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), has organised a two-day awareness training, whose objective is to equip the local officials at district level in Rwanda to fight environmental degradation.
Two people died on Wednesday when a canoe they were travelling in capsized in River Tete as they were crossing from Bibia in Amuru district to Arinyapi in Adjumani.
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