Research for PECH Committee – Fisheries in Mauritania and the European Union

Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This information note on the fisheries sector in Mauritania was prepared for the delegation of the European Parliament PECH Committee which carried out a visit from 2 to 6 April 2018. The note provided a description of the fisheries in Mauritania’s maritime areas and an analysis of the fisheries agreement with the European Union and the 2017 proposal to make some amendments.