Nairobi Convention Discussion Forum

Published by European Commission; 3 June 2009

He delivered a speech where he acknowledged that ‘Seychelles has the top fisheries port in terms of tuna landings and has one of the largest fisheries grounds in the Indian Ocean’. The EU-Seychelles Fisheries Partnership Agreement is the most important ACP-EU fisheries agreement in the region: its financial contributions represented approximately 5% of the national revenue in 2008; it created 15 million Euros of value-added for Seychelles and provided around 3,200 jobs, including 2,400 in the canning industry. But since fisheries are the country’s “blue gold”, ensuring a sustainable and responsible fisheries policy is essential.
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