36 days at sea: How these castaways survived hallucinations, thirst and desperation
** This is the problem ...
Like other local fishermen, Dieye was struggling to survive on earnings of roughly 20,000 CFA francs ($33) a month.
“There are no fish left in the ocean,” Dieye laments.
Years of overfishing by larger industrial vessels from Europe, China and Russia had wiped out Senegalese fishermen’s livelihoods, reducing their previously abundant catch to a few small crates of fish — if they were lucky — and pushing them to take desperate measures.
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It's always this, isn't it? Exploitation of resources by more powerful nations resulting in abysmal conditions for local people.
Once is saw CFA i knew exploitation was the main problem.
Historically, the CFA system has also generated additional revenue for France by requiring CFA nations to deposit initially 100 percent and, in recent years, 50 percent of their reserves in France’s Treasury, where it served as productive interest-bearing capital. Between 1945 and the introduction of the euro in 1999, French authorities devalued the CFA franc against the French franc by 99.9 percent, increasing French purchasing power against African nations and subsidizing the French way of life.
There should be a mandatory 500 mile limit around all of Africa where no trawlers or other massive fishing ops can operate.
Gd rich nations are killing the sea and the people whose lives depend on it.
And to make matters worse the price the stuff so damn expensive for end users in the rich nations that people basically don't even buy it and it just goes bad and gets thrown out.
Countless weeks I see them just marking down seafood 50% off, and it all vanishes that evening and not from being sold.