Three West African Nations to Ban EU Fishing FleetsThree West African countries are expected to take drastic actions to save one of the world's richest marine environment from overfishing by European Union (EU) and other fishing fleets.Such a move would have been unnecessary had the EU negotiated responsible fisheries agreements, environmentalists were quoted as saying by the People newspaper here on Thursday. West Africa has suffered "massive overfishing" by EU fishing fleets, with local small fishing boats forced to fish further and further out to sea or to concentrate their activities in sensitive coastal areas, said, Souleymane Zeba, director of the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) West Africa Program. Mauritania, Guinea Bissau and Senegal, whose fishing agreements with the EU are up for renewal this year, are all taking actions to protect fish and marine life off the coast of West Africa. |
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