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As part of Mozambique’s SWIOfish Program, Mais Peixe Sustent?vel provides matching grants to
support artisanal fishermen and encourage micro, small and medium enterprises to sustainably
expand fisheries and aquaculture value chains

Development of the Tuna f?sheries industry
The Government is currently developing a national tuna industry to increase the contribution of
these fishery resources to national socioeconomic development. Efforts include increasing the number
of fishing vessels and improving landing sites to directly benefit Mozambique and its citizens. This
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strategy was developed by the Government under the Fisheries Master Plan and the Strategic Plan for
Tuna Fisheries Development 2010–2019. In 2013, Mozambique submitted a fleet development plan
for 2014–2028 to the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (Oceanic Développement, 2014).
The Republic of Mozambique
Compliance with international f?sheries standards

Full compliance with European Union standards related to fish exports poses enormous challenges for LDCs
such as Mozambique. It is financially costly, and administratively and institutionally complex. Mozambique
is unable to fully meet public standards or satisfy industry requirements and standards that are higher than
public standards. As with all fish and seafood exports originating from LDCs, such exports from Mozambique
are thus confined to wholesales, which generally offer prices lower than those offered by supermarkets.

Climate change
The challenge
Climate change poses a threat to marine ecosystems, fisheries through the impacts on the freshwater
systems due to shifting rainfall patterns, increased evaporation levels, frequency and intensity of floods
and droughts, ocean warming and acidification (Benkenstein, 2013). There will also be impacts on
the coastal communities and the fishermen and processors who depend on the fishery and resource.

The situation
Historical situation
Between 1960 and 2006, temperatures increased by 0.6°C while mean annual rainfall decreased at
an average of 2.5 mm per decade, largely due to decrease in precipitation during the rainy season.
Over this time the rainy season started later and the dry seasons lasted longer. Extreme events such
as cyclones, heavy rains and droughts have increased in number since the 1950s.

Climate projections
The projections are that mean annual temperatures in Mozambique are likely to rise by 1.0-2.8°C by
the 2060s. Precipitation is likely to increase and become more intense in the rainy season. Overall,
the frequency and intensity of the extreme weather events is likely to increase. Sea level rise may
average 0.18-0.59 m by the 2090s (USAID, 2012).

The constraints

Poverty and low socio-economic status
Poverty, a fast-growing population that is insufficiently prepared, low literacy levels are likely to combine
to reduce the resilience to climate change. For instance, literate, prepared people have options to
make agriculture more climate-resilient and probably the skills for finding alternative livelihoods.
By 2050, it is expected that climate change may lead to a 4-14 per cent decline in GDP (MOF, 2018)

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