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International Conspiracy Against Nigeria’s Fishing Council

A MEMBER of the Governing Board of the Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, Mrs Margaret Orakwusi, has said that there is an international conspiracy against the Nigerian fishing sector, stressing that the western countries have made it difficult for Nigerian marine products to access their markets.

Speaking at the fourth Lagos International Maritime Week, Orakwusi said that the fishing sub-sector which generates over $270billion annually can generate more income if the marine resources are sustainably exploited.

Orakwusi whose paper entitled “African Blue Economy, innovation, sustainability and diversity” also said that Africa is at least underusing, possibly even drastically wasting its blue economy potential.

She disclosed that the African maritime industry is already worth $1trillion annually adding that with the right economic policies implemented, it could triple in two years.

According to her, the questions and queries a Nigerian fish exporter will have to answer before his or her products can be allowed into the European market are unimaginable.

She noted that a point, Nigerian seafood and other aquatic products were banned and it took months of heavy lobbying before the ban was lifted.

According to her, the diversification of Africa’s economies towards exploitation of the ocean resources will boost Africa’s economies and create opportunities of growth of critical sectors such as fisheries, tourism, maritime transport, offshore mining, in a way that the land economy has failed to do.

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