Sao Tome and Principe – Boosting artisanal fishing

“This COVID that appeared, I don’t know exactly from where, destroyed us,” says Maria Olga Andrade dos Ramos, fishmonger in Sao Tome. “Everything was shut down so a lot of fish got spoiled because we couldn’t sell it. Until now, we have not yet recovered.”

FISH4ACP sets out to advance coastal pelagic fisheries on the African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe by developing the sector sustainably, enabling communities to make their livelihoods better with improved production and access to organised commercial markets.

FISH4ACP is led by the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) with funding from the European Union (EU) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).