“If I had enough money with fishing, I would never have come to Europe.” They are the Czech of Memedo Raz, Senegal, and the old fisherman. Your experience underlines the results of a new statement Overweight Pushes the number growing by foreign ships Sensual Risk by following the most deadly immigration route Towards the Canary Islands Espanolus.
The Sec said to the Foundation for Environmental Justice (EFJ), which is the author of the Inquiry Profile Organization 13 people died on the ship during the trip to Spain.
Fishing is important for Senagal’s economyThis is because it provides about 3% employment in its active population, and it is essential for food security in the country. But the livelihood instructions of small Senegal fishermen are found Increasingly threatened by industrial fishing of foreign ships Exports most of their capture For EU markets And, increasingly, China.
The report comes after two environmental volunteers, customer Arth and Oceiana. They will sue the government of Spain last month He accused him of trial and not allowed Spanish pavilion shipsDoubt in illegal fishing procedures In front of the coast of Senegal and Guinea Pizza.
Overweight for decades
Las The people of the country are threatenedAs per the report, quotes samples that represent it 57% of species leaving the fish in Senagal. The report indicates excessive fishing for decades by the industrial and craftsman naval, as well as an increase in export levels.
Background traction fishingIn this, ships pull a network weighing by the background of the sea, which in particular Harmful to marine environmental systemsAnd more than 90% of the Senegal Industrial Fisheries Navy are background drag.
The report concludes that excessive fishing and illegal fishing The people of the exhausted fishIncrease Euphoria y Increase poverty. This, in turn, stimulates people to risk a dangerous journey from West Africa to Canary Islands.
One of the jackets The most dangerous in the world
Figure Migrants It came in Spain 63,970 registration number in 2024According to data from the Interior Ministry of Spain, more than twice as much as 2022 Canary IslandsWhere Visit has shot 200% between 2022 and 2024. Senegal is one of the three nationalities that reach most islands.
Despite the route from West Africa to the Spanish Islands, more people are trying to travel One of the most dangerous trips in the world. The Spanish NGO is estimated to be a total of walking borders 3,176 migrants died In 2023, the Canary Islands are trying to cross the Senegal.
In August 2023, a Drift ship A month ago, in front of the Kabo Verde beach, leaving the Seenagal’s coastal fishing community, Fass Bai. Of the 101 people aboard, there were only 38 who survived.
Ships that go to the sea no longer
Moto Boy CheckThat He is “children, nephews and grandson in this tragedy”He accused Senagal of the fishing crisis. There have been no recent ships to the sea. The difficulties they face young people, it has caused this tragic death, and it is very heartbroken. “
Kareem Sal, the president of the Senegal organization, which operates in the protected marine zone of Jol-Flyd, said, Anger in the impact of foreign overweight communities in communities Coastal: “I am very angry when I complain about immigration (foreign countries) because they are real pirates, what they have done is worse than secret settlement.”
“We are playing life to go but they come here to steal the fish. This is a robbery: robe our resources to feed its own citizens when we suffer. “
The Formula report The main recommendations for the Senegal government, the European Union and the Industrial Fisheries Institutions Senagalasa is massacred in the water, to deal with the crisis that crosses the Senegal fishing, and reduce the number of persons who make cross -sectional people. Listen to the strong and transparency administration to support the Senagal’s fisheries industry and the communities that depend on it.
Steve Trend, the founder of the Environmental Justice Foundation, emphasized the many consequences of the crisis facing the Senegal Fisheries Department: The biggest competition of industrial shipsThis causes the degradation of their living conditions, decreased in its food safety and a loss of their livelihood.
He said that “The effects are long And contributed to an increased increase in the deaths of migrants in the sea “and European authorities urged to conclude this now, and Return to Senegal’s fishing“.