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Stefanus Nashama The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has been provided with over N$8,5 million by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to undertake a landscape assessment of small-scale fisheries across the country. According to the Ministry, the N$8,5 million is also meant for the Ministry to undertake stakeholder consultations to obtain inputs to develop the Action Plan. This follows the Ministry’s request for support from the Food and Agriculture Organization to be able to implement the voluntary guidelines on securing sustainable small-scale fisheries, over five years ago. Speaking at the Ministerial Dialogue on small-scale fisheries yesterday in Windhoek,…