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Plans for sea fisheries management needed in Morocco
Morocco, Economics, 6/15/2005
The need to incept plans for the management of Moroccan sea fisheries to ensure the monitoring and the preservation of the sector's resources was highlighted by Hassan Chami, president of the Moroccan enterprises general Confederation (CGEM).
Chami told the first fisheries meeting, sponsored by the Sea Industries Federation (FIM) and the CGEM, opened here Tuesday, of the problems of the sector because of over-fishing and the presence of foreign fishing boats in Moroccan waters and of the vital role of fisheries along the 3,500 km of the country's Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts.
Opening the meeting, Mohand Laensar, agriculture, rural development and sea fisheries minister, also highlighted sea resources protection that necessitates the commitment of the sector's users and measures likely to help take up the challenges posed to the sector in a world of globalisation and harsh competition.
"Fishermen should be aware of the importance of responsible fishing," for it is a means to secure durability to the industry, Laensar said noting sea wealth conservation at the long run is preferable to short run benefits.
The FAO conduct code on fishing practices is an excellent guide, which should be adopted by Morocco as a model to work out a code suiting its fisheries context, Laensar said. Speaking at the meeting, Chargˇ d'affaires of the European commission representation in Morocco, Oliver Ruyssen told of the European Union concern to set a rational and lasting system for fisheries management. He said the 6 million euros programme on support for professionals (PAAP) decided to help FIM, as it does to some 41 other professional associations. Fisheries play an important economic role in Morocco reaching MAD billions (1 euro= 11 dirhams or MAD) of investments, employing a 400,000 strong task force and earning Morocco MAD 8 billion.
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