Tag: Senegal

• Senegal’s New Government Reviews Policies Related to Fishing Industry

  May 12, 2012

  Illegal Fishing, Maritime Security, Senegal

  Earlier this month, Senegal’s recently elected president, Macky Sall, revoked 29 licenses of pelagic fishing vessels belonging to Russia, Comoros, Lithuania, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Belize. This decision came a month after Sall’s first presidential speech in which he declared urgency to act in the country’s fisheries sector, and pledged to review the Read.