“….. Some experts warn that Sierra Leone’s coastal communities face devastating consequences of legal and illegal overfishing. “The Chinese fleet has been taking the profits of the fisheries for 30 years and the impact on fish stocks has been terrible,” says Stephen Akester, an adviser to Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources between 2009 and 2021. “The resources are disappearing, fishermen are suffering, families are starving. Many have just one meal a day.….”
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Illegal overfishing by Chinese trawlers leaves Sierra Leone locals ‘starving’
As illegal industrial-scale fishing by foreign fleets pillages fish populations, despairing coastal communities say they feel powerless
