| These last years, while adressing marine conservation problems in Western Africa, 3 major issues were generally raised by our local partners: -Most of the distant water fleets fishing in the coastal waters of other countries do not often abide by the international standards of responsible fishing; -The number of distant water fleets is steadily increasing in the Exclusive Economic Areas of developing countries; -Theses fleets have tremendous ecological and economic consequences, which resulted in a crisis of fishery management. Yet it is thanks to fishing agreements that distant water fleets have legal access to the fish resources of developing coastal countries.More important: it is thanks to subsidies that the behaviours of distant water fleets have such... |
