A Guardian investigation with DeSmog exposes hundreds of tonnes of fish are illegally become fishmeal and oil off the coast of Guinea-Bissau
The only ice manufacturing facility on Bubaque, an island in west Africa’s Guinea-Bissau, runs out solution. Neighborhood fishers, such as Pedro Luis Pereira, are forced to source ice from factories on the landmass, regarding 70km away– a six-hour round trip by watercraft.
” The equipments have been made months,” Pereira claims, as he pulls in his internet on the coast of the island inside the protected Bijagós archipelago. “We’ve informed the ministry of fisheries, but until now, nobody has involved repair them.”
Foreign industrial vessels anchored near the port of Bissau. Photograph: Davide Mancini
Source: The Guardian