Crackdown On Illegal Fishing to Protect Millions of Jobs

West Africa could also create hundreds of thousands of jobs if governments invested in the maritime industry, instead of selling off fishing rights to foreign operators, says the Overseas Development Institute.

Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is at the centre of a crisis of sustainability.

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