West Africa: European Fleets Deplete Fish Stocks

In recent years, conservationists have repeatedly warned of dwindling stocks in the West Africa Marine Ecoregion stretching from Mauritania to Guinea. Most point to over-fishing by European fishing fleets, which force small local fishing boats to concentrate their efforts in sensitive coastal areas.

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  • West Africa:  European Fleets Deplete Fish Stocks

    ThinkAfricaPress, 9 October 2012

    Samuel Diouf is one of hundreds of Senegalese making a living through artisanal fishing. The 20-year-old trades his daily catch at the Hann Bay fish market on the coasts of Dakar. ... read more »

Fishing is a major source of livelyhood in WestAfrica.



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  • ras sideeq
    Oct 10 2012, 09:45

    AGAIN I AM SO DISSAPOINTED IN SOME OF THESE POLITICIANS ITS BEYOND ME!!!! THEY ARE VERY STUPID MEN WHO SEE QUICK MONEY THRU BRIBERY GIVING AWAY THEIR WEALTH NOT REALISING HOW STUPID THEY ARE!!!!! AFRICA IS THIS GREAT BIG CONTINENT WHERE OVER ONE BILLION PEOPLE LIVE; ECOWAS INSTEAD OF LOKING FOR WAR ,JOINING FRANCE IN THIER ASPIRATIONS NEEDS TO BUILD A STRONG MARINE FORCE THAT WILL PATROL AFRICAN WATERS STOPPING THE PROFITERING OF THE SEASAND THE SPILAGES OF DIRTY WASTE IN AFRICAN COASTAL COUNTRIES. THERE HAS BEEN COMPALINTS FROM FISHER MEN FOR YEARS NOW SPEAKING OF THE DEPLETION OF THIER FISHING GRTOUNDS; YET THE ECOWAS WONT STEP TO IT. THIS STATES BROADLY THAT ECOWAS HAS NO PRIRORITES THEY ARE MISGUIDED BY FOREIGN ENTITIES WHO MISPLACES THEIR PRIORITIES. LET US LOOK CAREFULLY WHAT IS NEEDED IN WEST AFRICA THY NEED TO CONSOLIDATE A LARGER FIHING INDUSTRY THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO SUPPLY THE WHOLE WEST AFRICAN COMMUNITY WITH FISH SEASONALLY. THE NEED FOR IMPROVING AND PURCHASING OF TRAWLERS WITH ADEQUATE ROADS RAILS WHERE FISH CAN REACH THE POPULATIONS WITH FRESH FISH DAILY. AFRICANS IN THE W3ST NEEDS TO BUY AND STEP UP THIER MODERNISATION , THEY NEED TO DEVELOP AREAS OF MANUFACTURING WHERE THEY CAN BUILD BOATS FOR FERRIES ALONG THE MANY RIVERS THEY HAVE THEY NEED TO BUILD TRAWLEWRS FOR THE MANY NUMEROUS COAST LINES THEY HAVE TO SUPPLY AFRICA WITH FOOD PRDUCTS FROM THE SEA. WE NO MATTER HWO FERINDLY WE ARE WITH GOVERNMENTS MUST NOT SIDELINE OUR CITIZENS IN RESPECT TO OTHERS AFRICANS HAVE A GREAT INDUSTRY IN FISHING THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I HAVE WRITTEN OF THESE THINGS. I WOULD LOVE TO COME TO AFRICA RIGHT NOW AND ESTABLISH A STRONG UNION OF FISHERIES WHO WOULD PRODUCE A MUCH HIGHER QUOTA AND DISABLING THESE INTERNATIONAL BULLIES WHO STILL THINK THEY CAN ROUGH SHOD OVER AFRICANS. THESE THINGS ARE UNACCEPTABLE BY ALL MEASURES. WE NEED STRONG NAVAL PRESSENCE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST LINES WHERE THESE TERRORIST FROM THE WEST AND WHO SO EVER ELSE ARE POACHING IN THE WATERS ILLEGALY WHILE ALSO DISRESPECTING AFRICASN BY DELIVERING THE WORST OF THEIR CATCH AS IF TO SAY THAT IS WHAT AFRICANS DESERVE. WE NEED MORE CONSCIOUS POLITICIANS WHO SIT IN OFFICE THEY JUST OD NT SEE THE BIG PICTURES. THEY DO NOT SEE THAT AFRICAN FISHERIES CAN PRODUCE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FISHING REVENUES IF THEY WER MORE INTELLIGENT AND RECOGNISING THAT THEY ARE THE CONTROLERS THE OWNERS OF THESE PREMIERE WATERS WHERE LIFE IS TEEMING WITH AFRICAN REVENUE, MORE JOBS BOTH FOR SAILORS AND FISHERMEN WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!