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Policy Division

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The Renewable Natural Resources and Agriculture Team (RNRA Team)

Fisheries

DFID objectives in fisheries are to ensure that fisheries make the maximum possible contribution to the attainment of the MDGs. Fisheries are critical elements of poor people’s diets, especially in Africa, and are major sources of income, employment and national revenues. The RNRA team’s fisheries strategy is to develop and make available to developing countries models for the effective management of fisheries resources that realise maximum growth and poverty reduction. The RNRA team supports fisheries policy development at the international level in two areas areas:

• International action to address illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU)
• Fisheries access agreements.

Illegal Fishing

The RNRA team is working jointly with Defra and with a number of other governments to take forward a UK response to the recommendations of the High Seas Task Force. A three year programme of work is underway. This will lead to a UK led international action plan to combat illegal fishing. DFID will support and enhance the involvement of developing countries in this action.

Fisheries Access Agreements

The RNRA team is also working with Defra to achieve greater coherence and transparency in the fisheries access agreements concluded between European fishing States and developing countries. The team is currently assessing the impact of these on African countries and developing models and guidelines for best practice in this area with the aim of having these integrated into international codes of conduct.

Contact Neil MacPherson, N-MacPherson@dfid.gov.uk  for more information on the RNRA team’s fisheries work.

Last updated: 20 December 2006