Training for the benefit of maritime fishing cooperatives

The Department of Maritime Fisheries, in collaboration with the South Atlantic Chamber of Maritime Fisheries, organised a training seminar from 16 to 18 May for about thirty artisanal fishermen's cooperatives at the Institute of Maritime Fisheries of Laâyoune. According to a press release from the organisers, this approach is part of the capacity-building programme for fishermen's cooperative managers implemented by the Directorate of Vocational Training within the framework of the Halieutis Plan, which represents the development strategy for the fishing sector in Morocco. It added that the importance given to supporting and accompanying cooperatives in the Halieutis Plan is due to the fact that they constitute a lever for the economic and social development of maritime fishing. This Halieutis Plan provides for the realisation of a certain number of flagship projects for the processing…