{"id":19297,"date":"2022-05-13T16:25:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel"},"modified":"2022-05-13T16:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:49:54","slug":"ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel","title":{"rendered":"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>The fisheries ministry has refuted claims they are spending millions of taxpayers\u2019 money to rent a fisheries patrol vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The claims were made in a video circulated on social media, saying the government rented the Ocean Warrior vessel with taxpayers\u2019 money to carry out fisheries patrols while the ministry\u2019s vessels are rotting in the harbour.<\/p>\n<p>Fisheries minister Derek Klazen yesterday said they engaged the Stop Illegal Fishing (SIL) organisation to assist with patrols after one of the ministry\u2019s vessels broke down in December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other MV Anna Kakurukaze Mungunda is expected to go for her biennial maintenance in due course. This resulted in a memorandum of understanding in March with the Sea Shepherd Global (SSG) to avail the vessel to help fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Namibian waters,\u201d Klazen explained.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Ocean Warrior is a civilian offshore patrol vessel, and maintains its crew at their own cost, while government covered only the salary expenses of the law enforcement officers (fisheries inspectors placed on board).<\/p>\n<p>Klazen also indicated no cost was incurred by the government when the agreement was signed \u2013 just like in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the first time that the vessel comes to Namibia. She assisted us in 2019 when both fisheries patrol vessels of the MFMR were incapacitated due to maintenance and a surge in reported IUU fishing activities at the northern maritime border,\u201d the minister explained.<\/p>\n<p>He then cautioned Namibians against circulating false information that is intentionally created to stir up conflict, create mistrust and<\/p>\n<p>tarnish the reputation of the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fishing industry, under the stewardship of the ministry, supports the livelihood of so many Namibians and contributes immensely to other sectors of the economy. It is, therefore, imperative that individuals refrain from creating and disseminating misleading content for political points or other deceitful intentions,\u201d Klazen appealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. The fisheries ministry has refuted claims they are spending millions of taxpayers\u2019 money to rent a fisheries patrol vessel. The claims were made in a video circulated on social media, saying the government rented the Ocean Warrior vessel with taxpayers\u2019 money to carry out fisheries patrols while the ministry\u2019s vessels are rotting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":19296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,12,16],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-19297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The fisheries ministry has refuted claims they are spending millions of taxpayers\u2019 money to rent a fisheries patrol vess ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The fisheries ministry has refuted claims they are spending millions of taxpayers\u2019 money to rent a fisheries patrol vess ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-13T16:25:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-13T16:49:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_27-627e8c21b0780.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"478\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-13T16:25:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-13T16:49:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel\"},\"wordCount\":327,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_27-627e8c21b0780.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel\",\"name\":\"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel - Namibia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_27-627e8c21b0780.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-13T16:25:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-13T16:49:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The fisheries ministry has refuted claims they are spending millions of taxpayers\u2019 money to rent a fisheries patrol vess ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_27-627e8c21b0780.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_27-627e8c21b0780.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":478,\"caption\":\"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/\",\"name\":\"Namibia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel - Namibia","description":"The fisheries ministry has refuted claims they are spending millions of taxpayers\u2019 money to rent a fisheries patrol vess ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel","og_description":"The fisheries ministry has refuted claims they are spending millions of taxpayers\u2019 money to rent a fisheries patrol vess ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel","og_site_name":"Namibia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-05-13T16:25:52+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-05-13T16:49:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":478,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_27-627e8c21b0780.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel","datePublished":"2022-05-13T16:25:52+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-13T16:49:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel"},"wordCount":327,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_27-627e8c21b0780.jpg","keywords":["africa press","Africa Press-Namibia","namibia"],"articleSection":["all news","economy","homepage-english","policy","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel","name":"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel - Namibia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_27-627e8c21b0780.jpg","datePublished":"2022-05-13T16:25:52+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-13T16:49:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The fisheries ministry has refuted claims they are spending millions of taxpayers\u2019 money to rent a fisheries patrol vess ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_27-627e8c21b0780.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_27-627e8c21b0780.jpg","width":720,"height":478,"caption":"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ministry-denies-renting-fisheries-patrol-vessel#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ministry denies renting fisheries patrol vessel"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/","name":"Namibia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}