Seychelles publishes 2021 FiTI Report

The Indian Ocean archipelago has today published its third annual FiTI Report, covering information for the calendar year 2021 and offering interested national and international stakeholders another important means to understand the current state of the country’s marine fisheries sector.

This included catch and landing data from the sea cucumber and lobster fisheries for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons; all stock assessment reports undertaken by the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) since 2017; and a list of convictions and offences in the fisheries sector in 2020 and 2021 along with relevant court cases.

Furthermore, the Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy (MoFBE) provided clarifications to several longstanding areas of uncertainty regarding marine fisheries management in Seychelles. For example, the MoFBE underlined that no sector-specific subsidies are provided to Seychelles’ large-scale fisheries, and that an informal fisheries sector does exist in Seychelles, especially in the sports and recreational fishery which is currently unregulated.

The information for the 2021 FiTI Report was collectively reviewed and approved by Seychelles FiTI National Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG), which consists of equal numbers of representatives from government, the private sector and civil society.

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