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submitted 11 months ago by girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

** 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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[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

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