Senegal: Arrest of the Oleg Naydenov Shows Flag States Need to Better Control Their Fleets

opinion

In the summer of 2012, small-scale Senegalese fishermen reported a rapid and significant increase in their catches.

They attributed their rising fortunes to newly elected President Macky Sall's decision to revoke the licences of 29 large foreign trawlers, which together were taking as much as half of the country's catch of pelagic fish. The licences had been granted under dubious circumstances by the previous fisheries minister, as exposed in this report by Greenpeace Africa.

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