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Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC)

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Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management

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Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea; Fisheries sustainability; Regional cooperation; Regional fisheries management organization

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In addition to other marine resources, the West and Central African façade of the Atlantic Ocean is abundantly rich in fish biomass (UNEP 2016; Okafor-Yarwood 2019; Okafor-yarwood et al. 2020), with countries having several shared fish stocks. However, myriad challenges confront the sustainability of these resources including overfishing by foreign vessels; poor management of fisheries stocks; low participation of stakeholders in fisheries management; and illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing (IUU fishing) activities. Overcoming these challenges in a sustainable manner, therefore, calls for regional as well as international cooperation. In line with this need, the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) (Comité des Pêches pour le Centre-Ouest du Golfe de Guinée) was established in...

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  1. African Marine Environment Sustainability Initiative, Festac Lagos, Nigeria

    Ibukun Jacob Adewumi

  2. World Ocean Council, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Ibukun Jacob Adewumi

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  1. London Metropolitan University, Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law London Metropolitan University, London, UK

    Samuel Idowu

  2. Cologne Business School, Ingolstadt, Germany

    René Schmidpeter

  3. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Nicholas Capaldi

  4. International Training Centre of the IL, International Labor Organization, Turin, Italy

    Liangrong Zu

  5. Department of Economics, Society and Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy

    Mara Del Baldo

  6. Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal

    Rute Abreu

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  1. Sustainability Science, LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Mirja Mikkilä

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Adewumi, I.J. (2020). Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC). In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_1009-1

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