Chinese overfishing is marginalising Sierra Leone fishermen, a country in West Africa that has one of the richest fisheries in the continent.
Presently, China accounts for 75 per cent of Sierra Leone’s industrialised fishing fleet, reported European Times.
According to one of the advisers to Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, the Chinese fleet has been taking the profits of the fisheries for the last 30 years causing a considerable adverse impact on the fish stocks between 2009 and 2021.
The seafood resources are, therefore, disappearing fast, local fishermen are suffering and the families in the coastal communities are starving where many families, according to reports, could manage only one meal a day, reported European Times.
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