in Senegal, contributing 3.5 percent to the national GDP – has been experiencing the worst crisis in history.
The migration route to Spain’s Canary Islands – one of the world’s most dangerous – has been back in the spotlight since 2020. Since then, more than 50,000 sub-Saharan nationals have arrived at European shores through Senegal, Mauritania and Morocco. According to the International Organization for Migration , it is evenTraditional fishing is done with the assistance of lamps lowered a few metres into the water.
A report published in June 2021 by the Changing Markets foundation and Greenpeace estimates that more than 500,000 tonnes of fish are caught off Africa’s western coast each year and hoarded by foreign processing industries. Natural resources that, the report points out, could feed 33 million people in the African region.
These products, which are increasingly in demand on world markets, are used as feed in the intensive farming of animals or other more valuable fish – such as, for example, salmon in Norway and Sweden – or as ingredients in the cosmetics industry and in pet food manufacturing.