By David Cronin, the Brussels correspondent of Inter Press Service news agency

The theft of fish from Western Saharan waters should be damned by the European commission, not encouraged…..(continued)

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Press release, Western Sahara Resource Watch
7. July 2010

32 parliamentarians from Finland, Sweden and Denmark today requested the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of their countries to prevent renewed EU fisheries in occupied Western Sahara.
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Press release: Brussels, 23 February 2010
In a previously confidential legal opinion, the European Parliament’s Legal Service has declared fishing by European vessels in Western Sahara’s waters to be in violation of international law.

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Cate Lewis, Vice President of Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) has presented a petition to the IVth UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee from Western Sahara Resource Watch & on behalf of the  Australia Western Sahara Association. Read full petition>>

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The EU is paying Morocco to fish in occupied Western Sahara. Protest by signing this petition.
Published: 06.11 - 2009
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To the European Commissioner for Fisheries,
No state in the world has recognised the Moroccan annexation of Western Sahara. Still, the EU is paying millions of Euros annually to the Government of Morocco to allow EU vessels to fish in the waters of Western Sahara. The EU fisheries activities in Western Sahara must immediately come to an end.
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The declaration on 21 January 2009 of an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) by the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), the sovereign authority for Western Sahara, confirms its exclusive rights to the oil, gas and fisheries resources offshore of the territory of Western Sahara.  Already recognized by over 80 countries, the SADR’s declaration of an EEZ is a further step toward full statehood, consistent with international law.
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MEDIA RELEASE, January 2009
The Government of Western Sahara declared an offshore exclusive economic zone (EEZ) making official its exclusive rights to the oil, gas and fisheries resources offshore of the territory of Western Sahara.

The EEZ law, delineating the exclusive economic zone and the maritime areas of the SADR, was unanimously adopted by the Saharawi National Council (parliament) on 21 January 2009.
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Western Sahara Resource Watch
The former UN Legal Counsel, Ambassador Hans Corell, calls the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) illegal. Western Sahara Resource Watch demands immediate halt to European plundering of occupied Western Sahara.
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Written by Hone Harawira Thursday, 08 May 2008

Following the revelations in New Zealand media that the fishing company Sealord is involved in marketing fish from occupied Western Sahara, the Maori Party has now released a statement. Sealord is half Maori owned. Read their statement here.

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