tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post1915558034845773402..comments2024-03-28T07:50:06.102-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: How Europe’s dark fishing fleets threaten West Africamike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-71516252212923869212021-06-30T19:58:59.072-04:002021-06-30T19:58:59.072-04:00Hi Kaivey, that is a very fine article. Thanks fo...Hi Kaivey, that is a very fine article. Thanks for posting it. There is another aspect to this -- European and others' over-fishing in West Africa (and other parts of Africa) has been going on for decades. It is well known that the rise of piracy in the Indian Ocean off Somalia resulted from local peoples' reaction to large international trawlers and factory ships vacuuming up fish stocks, aided by the failed state conditions in that country.<br /><br />Aanother issue, that the BBC was reporting on around 2 decades ago already, is the link between the decline in West African (especially inshore) fisheries, and the resulting reduction in the availability of fish as a local and affordable food; this, in turn, has fueled a massive increase in consumption of bush meat, which has had devastating impacts on biodiversity inland, and may have contributed to some animal-to-human transmission of disease.Marian Rucciushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12944531845226157076noreply@blogger.com