FIP website: https://www.fip-petitspelagiques-mauritanie.org/home
Year 5 Annual FIP review documents:
M1.5.2
Action 2 support for management plan (PAP-PP) implementation
- Terms of reference for review of PAP-PP implementation (Year 1) by GIZ, with FIP comments - DRAFT
M2.1.2, M2.1.3, M2.2.2, M2.3.1
Action 5 support for MCS on vessels and in factories
- FIP external review by Global Trust Certifications (Ford 2024)
- Summary of relevant legislation, prepared by the FIP
- Jeyid, Mohamed Ahmed 2024. Suivi des usines de farine and huile de poisson en Mauritanie: 2023. IMROP. Presentation to FIP meeting, May 2024 (extract)
M2.3.2, M2.3.3
Action 1 data collection, Action 5 factory compliance, Action 8 traceability
- Jeyid, Mohamed Ahmed 2024. Suivi des usines de farine and huile de poisson en Mauritanie: 2023. IMROP. Presentation to FIP meeting, May 2024 (extract)
- A spreadsheet with data on catch by species by fleet up to and including 2023
- Braham, Cheikh-Baye; Mohamed Ahmed-Jeyid, Jilali Bensbai, Fambye Ngoum, Ad Corten and Jo Gascoigne. Overexploitation of round sardinella may lead to the collapse of flat sardinella: What lessons can be drawn for shared stocks? Fisheries Research 269, 106873
A3.1
Action 1 data collection, Action 2 PAP-PP, Action 7 stock assessments
- Braham, Cheikh-Baye; Mohamed Ahmed-Jeyid, Jilali Bensbai, Fambye Ngoum, Ad Corten and Jo Gascoigne. Overexploitation of round sardinella may lead to the collapse of flat sardinella: What lessons can be drawn for shared stocks? Fisheries Research 269, 106873
- FAO 2024. FAO working group on the assessment of small pelagic fish off NW Africa, 2024: Summary Report
- Information on the otolith saw purchased by the FIP (OLVEA) for IMROP
Action 7 stock assessments
A4.1
All Actions
- FAO 2024. FAO working group on the assessment of small pelagic fish off NW Africa, 2024: Summary Report
- Sarre, Abdoulaye; Hervé Demarcq, Noel Keenlyside, Jens‑Otto Krakstad, Salaheddine El Ayoubi, Ahmed Mohamed Jeyid, Saliou Faye, Adama Mbaye, Momodou Sidibeh and Patrice Brehmer 2024. Climate change impacts on small pelagic fish distribution in NW Africa: trends, shifts and risks for food security. Nature 14, 12684
E1.1.2, E1.1.3
Action 1 data collection, Action 6 bycatch and discards
- IMROP 2023. Interim Report to Ocean Stewardship Fund (MSC). 31 December 2023
- Braham, Cheikh Baye; Mohamed El Moustapha Bouzouma, Mohamed Ahmed Jeyid and Wagne Oumar Hamet 2024. Rapport sur le suivi de débarquements des petits pélagiques, IMROP, March 2024.
- Information on fish measuring boards being procured for ‘observer kits’ 24-0248a, fish measuring boards
E3.1.3, E3.2.1, E3.3.2
Action 3 Ecosystem requirements
- Student project proposals put forward by the FIP Coordinators in June 2024 Mammals/Birds, Fish
- Samba Abdellahi, Braham Cheikh-Baye and Bouzouma Mohamed 2024. Composition alimentaire des certains prédateurs de Petits poissons pélagiques. IMROP report, July 2024
Social Criterion
- Scoping Report by Partner Africa for FIP social workplan
- Mauritania social workplan interim report July 2024
- SFF Application mauritania small pelagics FIP sept 2023
Year 5 - 6 month FIP progress documents:
A3.1, A3.3 (also B and C clauses)
Action 1
- Presentation Wagne and Jeyyid (2023) (NB this only covers Jan-June 2023, the other info is IMROP pers. comm.)
- Logbook data entry report (Braham and Bouzouma, Dec. 2023)
Action 2
- ToRs from GIZ, reviewed by FIP (DRAFT - not publicly available yet)
Action 4
F1.1, F1.2
Action 2
7 observer reports from coastal seiners, and summary report (Suleimane et al., Dec. 2023)
- Observer report April 2023 a
- Observer report April 2023 b
- Observer report October 2023 a
- Observer report October 2023 b
- Observer report November 2023 a
- Observer report November 2023 b
- Observer report December 2023
Action 3
Thesis proposals
Action 6
7 observer reports from coastal seiners, and summary report (Suleimane et al., Dec. 2023)
See Action 2 links
Year 4 - Annual FIP review documents:
M2.3, M2.4
- Presentation to FIP meeting on sampling at factories, 2021 and 2022
- Ministry Statement Sept. 2023 (not the final version) – not publicly available yet
- PAP-PP, final version, November 2022
- Project plan for thesis, Mahfoudh Mohamed El Moctar El Bambari
A3.1, A3.3 (sardine)
Action 1: Improved data collection:
- Presentation to FIP meeting, August 2023, summarising FIP supported sampling activity for 2022 and the first half of 2023.
- Presentation to FIP meeting on sampling at factories, 2021 and 2022
- https://www.fao.org/inaction/eafnansen/meetings/fr/ Information about the Nansen programme: (on the calendar, highlight ‘surveys’ using the arrow top right, select ‘month’ and click forward in time)
Action 2: Management plan:
- PAP-PP final validated version, November 2022
- Project plan for thesis, Mahfoudh Mohamed El Moctar El Bambari
Action 4 Regional collaboration:
- Presentation summarising results of CECAF WG 2022 and IMROP national stock assessments for 2023
- Programme for GT-10 public event
- Braham et al. in prep. and review supporting acceptance – not publicly available yet
- Partner Africa social audit report, and response of the FIP Comité de Pilotage
F3.1
Action 3: Ecosystem based management and Action 6: Bycatch:
- Presentation to FIP meeting on observer deployments and results for 2023 to date
- Presentation on stock status with information on climate / ecosystem effects
- Final application to MSC (accepted for full funding in early 2023, started in ~April)
- Monk seal presentation to FIP meeting, August 2023
- Presentation by IMROP providing analysis of VMS data and overlap with protected monk seal zone
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