Senegal: Europe Wants Senegal's Fish but Rejects Its Migrants

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There are nearly 500 dead, and thousands of survivors on the high seas are young Senegalese who, at the risk of their lives, have been trying to reach Europe in recent months. A human tragedy continues to unfold. And as the tragedy makes news headlines, the fishing sector in Senegal is going through an unprecedented crisis - the Senegalese authorities have just renewed their fishing agreement with the European Union (EU).

As the EU begins to repatriate Senegalese migrants back to their land, it continues to exploit the country's fishery resources, the scarcity of which is partly the cause of the despair of thousands of young Senegalese.

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