Government warns fishers of severe El Niño impacts
Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Prof Mohammed Ali Sheikh, with the Zanzibar’s Officer-in-Charge of the Ministry of Blue Economy and Fisheries, Dr Salim Mohamed Hamza, and a group of participants during the national inception workshop for the African Group of Experts on Negotiations (AGNES) project.
Josephine Christopher is a senior business journalist for The Citizen and Mwananchi newspapers
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What you need to know:
The warning comes as Tanzania’s coastal fisheries face multiple climate-related pressures, including rising sea-surface temperatures, coral bleaching, mangrove degradation, declining fish catches