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Since the arrival of Seychelles’ first inhabitants, the country has relied on the surrounding rich fishing grounds for part of the population’s staple diet and local consumption. In more recent years fishing in Seychelles’ waters has developed from an industry intended purely to sustain the local population to one able to compete internationally as a vital foreign currency earner for Seychelles.
Home to industrial fishing fleets from the European Union and Far East, Seychelles lies in the centre of the Western Indian Ocean tuna stock’s migratory routes, making it the region’s most efficient hub from which to fish tuna, especially in the light of recent international fuel price rises, which have pushed up the cost of sailing to and from fishing grounds. Seychelles in fact is the shortest distance to and from 90% of the tuna fishing grounds in the Indian Ocean.
Today a thriving, Seychellois dominated artisanal and semi-industrial sector supplies the local market and sends high-value addition fisheries products overseas.
Industrial fisheries are led by European purse-seiners and Japanese and Taiwanese long-line fishing boats, which maintain a steady supply to the world’s second largest tuna cannery, Indian Ocean Tuna (IOT) based in Victoria, and the fleet of tuna transhipment vessels moored off-shore.Please select from the sub-menu items below.
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