ATDEPA

Welcome to ATDEPA

The Tunisian Association for the Development of Artisanal Fisheries

The ATDEPA, is a non-profit development association. It was created on September 24, 2011 following the publication of a notice in the Tunisian official journal.

Sahbi Bayoudh and his son

Fishing boat builder

Artisanal fishing in Tunisia

Artisanal fishing in Tunisia has long been classified as coastal fishing, all the while putting in place legal and financial instruments to limit its existence and facilitate its transformation into semi-industrial fishing. Outside, it is presented as a subsidence fishing practiced by traditional techniques respecting the natural environment and often using natural products as raw material.

Employing more than 70% of the workforce in the fishing sector (42,000 artisanal fishermen), artisanal fishing has contributed over the years to more than 50% of the value of national production.

Our projects

FISH MED NET

Decades of overfishing have seriously damaged the fishing industry in the Mediterranean. Fisheries catches are declining, negatively impacting incomes and employment

Sustainable Fishing Tourism

The project is part of an international and national context of safeguarding the ecological heritage, based on the development of sensitive areas and the adoption of the principles of sustainable development in order to improve food security on the basis of a real criterion of quality.

Roles of the Marine Protected Area: MADPA

The “MADPA” project was woven on the framework of the objectives of the MedPan project and the needs of the target population through a diagnosis on the ground, reports of socio-economic studies (SMAPIII project),

Missions and Objectives

The association will try to get involved in the definition of fisheries policy by:

Establishing the responsible participation of artisanal fishermen in the sustainable management of the coastal ecosystem on which their activities depend
Contribute to the development of the artisanal fishing sector by implementing projects that use the technical guidelines for responsible fishing, including the ecosystem approach.
Inculcate the values of citizenship in small-scale fishers and encourage responsible participation.
the application of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and to work to improve the governance of the sector