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Senegal is implementing a participatory fisheries policy in which the main aim is to ensure sustainable development by preserving fish stocks, promoting aquaculture development, and creating value added through industrial processing.

A new inland fisheries and aquaculture code is under preparation.

The major reforms undertaken in the subsector include the implementation of measures for conservation and regeneration of the resource and the marine environment (establishment of biological fallow periods, sinking of artificial coral reefs, creation of protected maritime areas, creation of a national department with responsibility for community areas).

Management plans are currently being prepared to address the problem of overexploitation of the main commercial species, particularly coastal and deep-water shrimp, hake, octopus, and cymbium abalone.

Under the Industrial Development Sector Policy Letter concerning the policy of industrial reorganization (PRI), the upgrading of enterprises in intended to raise the level of business performance to meet international standards and requirements in respect of competitiveness and compliance with environmental regulations.

The extension and modernization of the SOCOCIM cement factory at Bargny-Rufisque, which will raise its production capacity from 2 million to 3.5 million tonnes per year, is in the pipeline – by year's end 2008 the factory's compliance with environmental standards on particulate emissions was already below the threshold of international standards.

The second phase of the Upgrading Programme (PMN), due to start in the second half of 2009 and scheduled for completion in 2013, should consolidate achievements in the initial phase and potentially lead to extension of the scope of the programme to cover environmental aspects and energy efficiency, particularly the replacement of traditional energy sources with biofuels.

A new Mining Code was adopted by Senegal in 2003, to respond to the objectives of the PRSP II (particularly in terms of environmental management), and provide general guidance on mining rights both internationally and under WAEMU.

The progressive withdrawal of the State from the various environmental services involves partial liberalization of sanitation services, the gradual privatization of waste management and treatment services, and the development of new jobs to address the issue of atmospheric pollution.

The National Tourism Charter, adopted in April 2003, provides responses to the infrastructure deficit; lack of involvement by Senegalese nationals; quality of accommodation; conservation of the environment; and weakness of tourism promotion media.