This event- Fisheries Communications
Workshop on Harnessing the Power of Media to Raise Awareness on the issues of
the African Fisheries Sector- is the culmination of enormous collective efforts
which began with conceptualization of the idea by World Bank team in
collobration with AU-IBAR and many other institutions that contributed in one
form or another towards the organisation of the workshop says Dr. Mohamed
Seisay, Senior Fisheries Officer AU-IBAR.
Dr. Seisay was reading a statement on
behalf of the AU-IBAR Director at the official opening ceremony of the 29th
February-4th March, 2016 African Journalists for Sustainable
Fisheries Workshop held in Elmina, Ghana which gathered more than 140
journalists- newspapers, TV, radios and online from 40 African countries.
Giving a brief overview of the African
union institute, the co-convener of the workshop said the inter African Bureau
for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) is a speacilized technical office of the
Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (DREA) of the African Union
Commission and has been in existence since 1951 with main focus on animal
production and health issues, livestock, fisheries and wildlife as resources
for both human wellbeing and economic development in the Member States of the
African Union.
