BCLME Press Releases

• The BCLME Programme has been extended until January 2008, January 2007
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• Media Release, 13 June 2007
  The release by the global NGOs, WWF and Birdlife South Africa, of a report on the impact of longline fishing, highlights the challenges faced by Angola, Namibia and South Africa as they strive to better manage the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME).
   

• Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) climate change workshop, May 2007
  The Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem is a highly productive, complex and variable ecosystem. In such a system, it is extremely difficult to separate the climate change “signal” from “noise”. Other large ocean basins such as the North Atlantic and the North Pacific have well defined inter-decadal changes. In contrast, the Benguela has a higher degree of variability than its counterparts in other parts of the world such as the Humboldt, Canary and California Current systems. This has to be taken account of when managing the ecosystem and its response to climate change. The Benguela Current LME is at the confluence of three major ocean systems, (the Atlantic, Indian and Antarctic oceans) and is subject to influence from the tropical Atlantic, the mid - latitude pressure systems in the Atlantic and the southern oceans and the subtropical pressure systems in Indian and South Atlantic oceans.
   

• Media Release, 29 August 2006
  The ministers responsible for the management of marine fisheries in Angola, Namibia and South Africa will come together in Cape Town today, 29 August 2006, to signify their support for the establishment of a Benguela Current Commission.
   
• Media Release, 15 May 2006
  Genetic analysis is just one of a range of tools that scientists from Namibia and South Africa will employ over the next two years in a bid to ascertain with reasonable certainty whether the two countries share a single stock of deep-water hake (Merluccius paradoxus).
   
• Media Release, 7 May 2006
  Fisheries scientists and members of the fishing industries and governments of South Africa and Namibia are scheduled to meet in Cape Town from 9 to 11 May to discuss the potential for managing deep water hake (Merluccius paradoxus) as a shared stock.
   
• Media Release, 2 May 2006
  The meeting and mixing of the Benguela and Agulhas currents off the southern tip of Africa will come under the spotlight this week when oceanographers and fisheries scientists meet in Cape Town.
   
• Skiboats for environmental monitoring, 24 March 2006
  The Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) Programme has purchased two 5.5m glass fibre skiboats to assist scientists in Namibia and Angola to monitor the marine environment.
   

• Interim Benguela Current Commission to be established soon, 20 June 2005
  South Africa, Namibia and Angola are soon to establish an inter-governmental commission that will facilitate the co-operative management of the Benguela Current ecosystem – one of the most productive ecosystems on earth.
   

• Media Release, 3 May 2005
  Dr Moses Maurihungirire has been appointed as the director of the BCLME Programme’s Activity Centre for Marine Living Resources in Swakopmund, Namibia.
   
• Media Release, 1 November 2004
  It is a well known fact that commercially important fish resources fluctuate markedly in the Benguela region, but is it possible to forecast years of boom and bust for the fishing industry? This is one of the questions that will be deliberated by some of the world’s top marine scientists who meet in Cape Town from 8 to 11 November to take part in the International Workshop on Forecasting and Data Assimilation in the Benguela and Comparable Systems.
   
• Current of Plenty celebrates the wonders of the Benguela Current, 4 October 2004
  Namibia’s Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Dr Abraham Iyambo, and top officials from key government ministries, the diplomatic corps and the fishing and mining sectors, will attend a screening of a documentary on the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) in Windhoek today.
   
• Current of Plenty celebrates the wonders of the Benguela Current, 27 July 2004
  A 25 minute documentary, which describes the abundance of life that occurs in the coastal regions of the Benguela, has been produced by the BCLME Programme. The documentary, Current of Plenty, is being circulated to environmental educators, scientists and fisheries managers in the Benguela region.
   

• South Africa, Namibia and Angola benefit from German co-operation, 23 April 2004
  Students of oceanography are gaining valuable insights into the mechanics of the highly variable Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem, thanks to a co-operative research programme that is being conducted from the deck of the German research vessel, Alexander v. Humboldt.