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Africa: Finding Legal Loopholes to Grant Vessel Licences Is Inherently Unethical - Greenpeace Africa
Greenpeace, 16 October 2020
Dakar, Senegal, 15 October 2020 - The Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy of Senegal issued apress release on 12 October 2020 and rejected the key findings in Greenpeace… Read more »
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West Africa: Big Fishing Industries Plunder Region's Ocean as Sector is Locked Out By Covid-19
Greenpeace, 15 October 2020
While governments in Senegal, Mauritania and The Gambia have been carrying out emergency food distributions to local communities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new… Read more »
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West Africa: Fish-Drained Senegal to Exploit Liberian Waters Through New Agreement With Govt
FrontPageAfrica, 30 January 2019
Senegal, a country running out of fish in its waters, has signed a five-year agreement with the Government of Liberia to exploit Liberian territorial waters and in return provide… Read more »
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Africa: Not Enough Fish in the Sea
ISS, 7 January 2020
There has recently been some controversy surrounding the mining of bauxite (a precursor to aluminium) in Ghana, with the role of Chinese investment taking center stage. Bauxite… Read more »
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Africa: Illegal Fishing Harming West Africa
The Point, 3 August 2018
Vessels arrested for illegally fishing in West African waters are still carrying on with business as usual, according to a Greenpeace Africa report released last year in November. Read more »
Multinationals, Foreign Vessels Plunder West Africa's Fish
While governments in Senegal, Mauritania and The Gambia have been carrying out emergency food distributions to local communities in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new Greenpeace report, exposes how the same governments have kept enabling systematic plunder of the oceans by foreign fishing vessels and fishmeal and fish oil industries. Greenpeace is calling on all governments in the Economic Community of West African States region to adopt a sustainable regional management plan, with urgent focus on dropping open sea stocks.
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Gutted - a documentary collaboration between Angelo Louw, Greenpeace Africa's Digital Mobilisation Officer and filmmaker Malcolm Rainers, highlights how industrial fishi Read more »
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Fishing operators who are members of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mine and Agriculture, NACCIMA, have urged the government to bail them out from an ... Read more »
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Pesticides that can cause cancer, mouth ulceration, dysphagia and abdominal pain, among other diseases, if ingested have reportedly been detected in fish imported from China. Over ... Read more »
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Scientists from the University of the Western Cape's chemistry department have found that fish caught by small scale commercial fishers in Kalk Bay are contaminated by antibiotics, ... Read more »
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The government is said to have collected over U.S.$2 million in fines from fishermen and traders caught with illegal gear. Other fishermen have been arrested on allegations of ... Read more »
