22 February, 2018
By Stephen Akester Today, the team of World Bank-funded West Africa Regional Fisheries Program (WARF-P)and I would like to pay tribute to Solomon Kamara, his family and peers, who are emblematic of…
12 October, 2017
Stephen Akester from MEP has now returned from his trip to Ghana, where he met with the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development and Fisheries Commission staff at the end…
12 October, 2017
Fran has just returned from her week in Ghana where she was training local community members in the use of a fisheries data collection application. The application is installed on…
03 October, 2017
Stephen Akester, Fisheries Director of MacAlister Elliott and Partners, was interviewed in September 2017, by the BBC World Service in relation to IUU Fishing off the West Coast of Africa….
21 September, 2017
At the beginning of September 2017, Stephen Akester from MEP visited South Korea for the opening of the World Fisheries University in Busan, http://wfu.pknu.ac.kr/html/main/main.php, where he met the first student group. …
15 September, 2017
In September 2017, Frances James and Alex Senechal attended a Control Union Employee Networking Circular Economy Event at the Rotterdam Science Tower. The evening was kicked off by Kristiaan Tetteroo who…
20 June, 2017
On Friday, 16 June, 2017, MacAlister Elliott and Partners (MEP) celebrated their 40th Birthday. MEP started from very humble beginnings, following Gowan MacAlister and David Elliott’s attempt to buy the company…
17 May, 2017
MEP and MEC had another successful year exhibiting at the Brussels Seafood Show, this time co-exhibiting with Control Union. Please see the You Tube link attached, where Chrissie Sieben and…
12 January, 2017
MEP receive the PIA (Peterson Innovation Award) 2016 Award for innovative ideas and technologies. Each year Peterson and Control Union present The PIA and PCA awards to stimulate employees to…
16 November, 2016
An interesting article from The Guardian highlighting MEP/Stephen Akester’s work in West African fisheries. Thousands of Chinese ships trawl the world, so how can we stop overfishing?