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Fishing in West Africa
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01-01-2023 04:02PM#1
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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
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