{"id":1587,"date":"2018-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/uncategorized\/1587\/greenpeace-activists-protested-at-anams-offices-to-demand-the-complete-re-calculation-of-fishing-vessels-tonnage-in-senegal\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:22:31","slug":"greenpeace-activists-protested-at-anams-offices-to-demand-the-complete-re-calculation-of-fishing-vessels-tonnage-in-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/1587\/greenpeace-activists-protested-at-anams-offices-to-demand-the-complete-re-calculation-of-fishing-vessels-tonnage-in-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace activists protested at ANAM&#8217;s offices to demand the complete re-calculation of fishing vessels\u2019 tonnage in Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leader\">Dakar, July 18, 2018 \u2013 Today, Greenpeace activists peacefully protested in front of the office of the National Agency for Maritime Affairs (ANAM) to demand the publication of the state of the re-calculation of the industrial fishing vessels in Senegal.\u00a0Activists unfolded banners with the message \u00a0\u201cTo allow tonnage fraud is to jeopardize fishing\u201d and \u00a0\u201cRe-calculation of vessels tonnage: ANAM how far are you? \u201c.<br class=\"kix-line-break\" \/><br class=\"kix-line-break\" \/>Since 2016, the process of the re-calculation of the industrial fishing vessels is still lagging. This is despite the commitments made by the Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy and the heavy financial, social and environmental consequences the tonnage fraud continues to have in Senegal.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe ask the Government of Senegal to clarify the progress of this process and to publish the results of the internal investigation carried out on this subject, in accordance with the international and regional commitments made by the country. Under-reporting the gross tonnage of a vessel is a violation to Senegal\u2019s law and international conventions,\u201d said Ahmed Diam\u00e9, Greenpeace Africa Oceans Campaigner.<\/p>\n<p>The submission of a new tonnage certificate was a condition for vessels to get fishing licences in 2017. In 2016, the authorities of ANAM and the Minister of Fisheries had promised all Senegalese that their services would solve the problem of tonnage fraud and that the deadline for publishing their findings will be late 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years later, nothing has been done about this commitment. In addition to financial losses for the Senegalese government, this fraud has a negative impact on coastal communities, ecosystems and marine resources,\u201d Diame added.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-05405e6c-ad71-d4f2-5aa5-157f481f379c\">The gravity of the massive fraud on the declaration of gross tonnage by some industrial fishing vessels was revealed by Greenpeace Africa in May 2015 in its report <a title=\"Scam on the African Coast: The hidden face Chinese fisheries and mixed companies in Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Guinea Conakry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2018\/10\/9b77bf5d-9b77bf5d-scam-on-the-african-coast-final-proof1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cScam on the African Coast: The hidden face Chinese fisheries and mixed companies in Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Guinea Conakry\u201d<\/a>. In this report, Greenpeace Africa revealed that fishing vessels operating in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZs) of these three countries had under reported their gross tonnage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-98d6379f-ad8c-e17c-1bde-b395234e06f2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/actunet.net\/enquete-la-fraude-sur-le-tonnage-organisee-autour-de-la-peche\/\">http:\/\/actunet.net\/enquete-la-fraude-sur-le-tonnage-organisee-autour-de-la-peche\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">bkouliba@greenpeace.org<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- document.write(dc('Eoi_1', '33_0D_52_1C_0F_4A_5F_52_51_5A_5F_46_5C_70_13_4A_41_52_58_52_71_0D_11_54_41_5C_1D_56_50_52_56_43_5D_56_56_41_54_73_52_51_5A_5F_46_5C_58_51_09_5C_47_5F_5A_52_5E_11_0E_55_56_41_5B_13_11_4A_5F_52_51_5A_5F_46_5C_70_13_4A_41_52_58_52_71_11_0E_56_5F_47_5A_47_13_52_0F'));\/\/--><\/script>, Communication Officer, Greenpeace Africa,\u00a0+221773336265<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-5067c8bc-ad76-eea6-d68d-e340fc26a184\">adiame@greenpeace.org<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- document.write(dc('Eoi_2', '62_5C_03_4D_5E_8B_0F_03_0B_26_42_06_07_0F_0A_23_5C_40_05_10_0D_4C_07_01_03_07_12_0C_07_07_10_05_22_07_0F_03_0B_06_03_58_0D_16_0E_0B_03_0F_40_5F_04_07_10_0A_42_40_8B_0F_03_0B_26_42_06_07_0F_0A_23_40_5F_07_0E_16_0B_16_42_03_5E'));\/\/--><\/script>, Oceans Campaigner, Greenpeace Africa, \u00a0+22133328993<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tDakar, July 18, 2018 &#8211; Today, Greenpeace activists peacefully protested in front of the office of the National Agency for Maritime Affairs (ANAM) to demand the publication of the state of the re-calculation of the industrial fishing vessels in Senegal.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[50,36],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecttheenvironment","tag-senegal","tag-fishing","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8301,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/8301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}