Posted by Alicia C -
2 June 2011 at 5:10pm -
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Your fish costs more than you think. A billion people worldwide depend on fish as their main source of protein, many living in the world’s poorest nations - including Africa.
Celestino Oliveira, Abdou Karim Sall and Issa Moustapha Diop meet fishing communities in Penzance
Last week,
three African fishermen - Karim of Senegal, Celestino of Cape Verde and Issa of Mauritania
- were in the UK for the African Voices tour to deliver an urgent message: that
EU fleets must stop stealing fish from African Waters.
Fishingboats arriving to Tarrafal, Santiago, Cape Verde.
On Sunday the latest leg of African Voices begins, as three delegates
from West African fishing communities arrive in London to start a
tour of the UK, speaking out on how the invasion of industrial-sized EU fleets
are threatening their livelihoods, food security and marine ecosystems.
The disastrous effects of
overfishing by European fleets aren’t confined to our continent's waters: destructive EU vessels are now exploiting the waters of the world’s
poorest nations - threatening ecosystems, depriving local
fishermen of their livelihoods and the food security of their communities. So Greenpeace have brought them and their stories to Europe.
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