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Crack down on illegal fishing to protect millions of workers in W.Africa
2016-06-29 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Foreign trawlers venture into coastal areas, exhausting local stocks, often illegally, and forcing locals further out to sea to find fish West Africa nations must crack down on foreign fleets fishing illegally off its Atlantic coastline and build up their fisheries to protect the livelihoods of millions of people, a leading thinktank said on Wednesday. Overfishing by foreign vessels is driving many species towards extinction and destroying the livelihoods of fishing communities in countries such...
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