Fishing in West Africa

kirk.

I see on national geographic that the local fishermen instead of fishing themselves are going out to the foreign trawlers as and buying the frozen bycatch

The foreign trawlers are also deliberately targetting the bycatch so they can sell it to the locals

Shocking really

Capt'n Midnight

Modern industrial fishing is too efficient. If the object is to harvest fish sustainably then we don't need that many people. If the object is to provide jobs then we don't need supertrawlers which force everyone else into more dangerous waters. Our own history of inshore sinkings with deaths of low paid foreign crew when chasing diminishing returns in bad weather is inexcusable.

55% of Northern Ireland's quota was allocated to one boat with a crew of 13. And it operates out of a different country because it's too big for NI fishing ports.

This is the Nina May. It was licensed to catch 1,500 tonnes of fish a year, a fifth of the UK's south west quota.

European Supertrawlers are taking jobs from Africans and creating economic migrants. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jun/29/tackling-illegal-fishing-in-western-africa-could-create-300000-jobs

kirk.

Well that's it really they're too efficient and they cheat

The oceans are being hammered with fishing and plastic waste

Business is only interested in making money and needs to be controlled