Illegal Fishing In America

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People of Africa are vexed because of overfishing and illegal fishing .
There was Joal who was a fisherman,he complained a few weeks that illegal fishermen are laundering their catches through mother ship factories, trans-shipment and resupply at sea : "The catches are already down 75% on 10 years ago because of the foreign fishing boats. They destroy our gear. If this goes on there will be a catastrophe. Until now we haven't taken any direct action against the foreign fishermen. Once we took the captain from one of the vessels and we beat him around the balls.
"For sure, in 10 years time people will go fishing with guns. They are desperate. When people had enough to eat and drink, Senegal was a calm country. As the situation becomes more

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