On Thursday, 17 October, the European Commission adopted three proposals upon signing a new protocol to the Agreement on a Sustainable Fisheries Partnership between the EU and Senegal (see EUROPE 12303/10).
The new five-year protocol implementing the 2015 agreement will replace the current one, which expires in November 2019.
This new protocol allows EU vessels to fish for tuna-like species and black hake in Senegalese waters: 28 tuna seiners (16 from Spain and 12 from France), 10 pole-and-line vessels (8 from Spain and 2 from France), 5 longliners (3 from Spain and 2 from Portugal), and 2 Spanish trawlers.
The yearly financial contribution that Senegal receives from the European Union amounts to €1,700,000: €800,000 (for a reference tonnage of 10,000 tonnes of tuna per year and a total allowable catches of black hake of 1750 tonnes per year) and €900,000 per year for the development of Senegal’s sectoral fisheries policy. (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)