Benin Joins Global Fishing Transparency Effort

Benin is set to become the first African nation to make its fishing fleet’s movements publicly visible. The country's government announced it has reached a deal with nonprofit Global Fishing Watch (GFW) to establish a vessel-monitoring system (VMS) to track its fleet. Under the deal, the country will share all its data with GFW for presentation on the GFW map – the first African nation to agree to full transparency, according to GFW.