FISHING INDUSTRY IN NAMIBIA

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FISHING INDUSTRY IN NAMIBIA

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Feb 16, 2018 8:12 pm

Namibia issued in 2004 3 stamps for the fishing industry, which is important for the country and special the Walvis Bay port. Two stamp the N$1.60 and N$2.75 shows us fishing vessels the other show us a production line in a fish factory at shore.
Of the two fishing vessels I have not much details, the N$1,60 shows us the discharging of the fish. The N$2.75 stamp shows a stern trawler alongside clumsy moored without bowlines and only a spring line. She would not stay long alongside before blown of the quay, a mistake by the designer.

Namibia has one of the most productive fishing grounds in the world, based on the Benguela Current System, one of the four eastern boundary upwelling systems in the world (the others are off North – West Africa, off California and off Peru). These systems support rich populations of fish, which form the basis for the Namibian marine fisheries sector.
Namibia‘s 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)’s commercial biomass contain about 20 different species consisting primarily of small pelagic species (pilchard, anchovy, horse mackerel and mackerel) and lobster along the shallower onshore waters on the continental shelf, as well as large pelagic species including adult mackerel, demersal hake and other deep – sea species (monkfish, sole and crab) in the waters further offshore.
Out of the 20 fish species commercially exploited in Namibia, eight species are regulated through TACs (Total Allowable Catch). Resources available in quantity for export are horse mackerel and hake. Namibian horse mackerel is the dominating species in terms of volume in the Namibian waters. It contains only three to eight percent body fat, it is both healthy and highly nutritional as well as a vital staple food source for many nations in the region. Hake products are of good quality and increasingly in demand in EU and other international market for the catering and retail markets.
The orange roughy is another of Namibia’s marine resources. This fish, often referred to as the ‘diamond of the sea’, is a rare, high-priced addition to Namibia’s exports in this sector. Only commercially exploited in 1994, Namibia has become the world’s second largest supplier of Orange roughy, however the catches of the species have been small in recent years.
Other marine exports include rock lobster; crab; oysters; monk; tuna; pilchards, seaweed, anchovy, redeye, snoek, sole, kingklip, panga, John dory, angelfish, shark, swordfish, kob, barbel, squid, cardinal fish, Cape guarnard, grenadier, Jacopever, chub mackerel, octopus and mullet.
The state of the stocks is fair for most of the species, despite declining landings in recent years. However it is the pilchard stocks that are of much concern to the nation. The pilchard population was seriously reduced during the 1990s due to negative environmental circumstances between 1993 and 1995 (so-called ‘Benguela-Niño’) and the negative effects of over-fishing in the period before independence. In 2001, the stock assessment was indicating less than 100,000 MT. The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources made the decision to set zero quotas for pilchard in 2002 in order to allow the rebuilding of the stocks. In October 2003, the adult stocks of this short-lived species were estimated to be 300,000 MT.

Source: http://www.fao.org/fi/oldsite/FCP/en/nam/profile.htm
Namibia 2004 N$1.60/4.85 sg?, scott?
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