Greenpeace Africa is calling on West African governments to strengthen surveillance of the region’s oceans and protect fisheries against all forms of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
After the suspicious presence of a factory trawler in Senegalese waters was exposed, the vessel, which is registered in Russia and owned by a Namibian company on behalf of the Icelandic company Samherji, continued its operations in Guinea-Bissau and Mauritanian waters. Greenpeace Africa observed that the...