The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) just updated its Expert List in August 2020 related to the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery…
On July 1st PhD Jorge Dresdner and co-authors Julio Peña-Torres, Felipe Quezada and Iván Luzardo were honoured as the winners for the 2020 Outstanding Article in Marine Resource Economics. Their…
The Convention on Biological Diversity’s Aichi Targets include target goals of setting aside a percentage of marine areas as marine protected areas (MPAs). One purpose of marine protected areas is to protect species such as sea turtles from fishing. Fishing can accidentally catch turtles and can disrupt the turtles’ progress to the beach for laying eggs.
ENRRI webinar on the topic: 'Saving the Sea from Drying: Social and Economic Implications of Overfishing for Ghana' by Prof Wisdom Akpalu has been rescheduled to Wednesday 16th September, 2020…
To ensure that benefits from capture fisheries accrue to nationals, fisheries regulations and acts prioritize local access and harvest rights in near and distant waters within a nation’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The lack of local capital to finance industrial fishing, such as trawling, has compelled developing coastal countries’ fishermen to access foreign investment through contractual agreement such as hire-purchases.
Reporting on ENRRI’s seminar on the topic Capture Fisheries Management in Ghana: Challenges and Prospects – that took place on 18, August 2020 at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public…
Greater collaboration between decision makers, academia and industry is the surest way to ensure the success of fisheries sector management and conservation initiatives. This was one of the main…
Topic: Capture Fisheries Management in Ghana: Challenges and Prospects Date: Tuesday 18 August 2020 Time: 10:00 am Venue: GIMPA Executive Conference Centre, Accra
In July 2020, the Environment and Natural Resource Research Initiative (ENNRI, EfD - Ghana) and the Resource and Environmental Policy Research Centre (REPRC - EFD Nigeria) co-organized a crash course…
About 40 researchers on 30th-31st July 2020 converged at Makerere University for a refresher training to sharpen their skills in Experimental Economics. The training held at the College of Business…