{"id":3522,"date":"2019-07-03T07:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T07:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"liberia-needs-more-support-to-effectively-combat-iuu-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/03\/liberia-needs-more-support-to-effectively-combat-iuu-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLiberia Needs More Support to Effectively Combat IUU Fishing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberianobserver.com\/author\/webmaster\/\"><strong>Webmaster Admin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liberia and neighboring Sierra\nLeone have begun implementing a US$500,000 project aimed at achieving the\nsustainable development goals (SDG) #1 (no poverty), #2 (zero hunger), #8\n(decent work and economic growth, #10 (reduced inequalities), #13 (climate\naction) and #14 (life below water). The project, known as the \u201c2009 FAO\nAgreement on Port State Measures and the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing\nSustainable Small-Scale Fisheries for Sustainable Fisheries and Maritime\nSecurity in the Gulf of Guinea\u201d, officially runs from April 2019 through March\n31, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delivering the official\nstatement declaring the start of the project on Friday, June 28, 2019, the\nActing Director General of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority\ncalled on all fisheries international partners, including the United Nations\nFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO), to help enable Liberia effectively and\nadequately combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities\nwhich, he said, has caused the country huge losses in revenues. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberianobserver.com\/news\/liberia-needs-more-support-to-effectively-combat-iuu-fishing\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Webmaster Admin Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone have begun implementing a US$500,000 project aimed at achieving the sustainable development goals (SDG) #1 (no poverty), #2 (zero hunger), #8 (decent work&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}