The African fishermen who blame Chinese trawlers for their woes
But the locals say that catches have fallen in recent years, and they all blame the same thing – large, foreign fishing ships.One woman, Marie Pierre, is picking sardines from among the discarded jelly fish. She says that international trawlers are illegally entering the coastal waters in ever larger numbers, despite there being an official exclusion zone to keep them out.Fisherman Musa Gassimo even alleges darker actions. "We cast our nets in the evening and return to shore.
- ▪But the locals say that catches have fallen in recent years, and they all blame the same thing – large, foreign fishing ships.One woman, Marie Pierre, is picking sardines from among the discarded jelly fish.
- ▪She says that international trawlers are illegally entering the coastal waters in ever larger numbers, despite there being an official exclusion zone to keep them out.Fisherman Musa Gassimo even alleges darker actions.
- ▪"We cast our nets in the evening and return to shore.
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The African fishermen who blame Chinese trawlers for their woesImage caption, Fishermen on Sierra Leone's Sherbo Island say their catches have fallenByEd ButlerBusiness reporter, Reporting fromSherbo Island, Sierra LeonePublished41 minutes agoThe villagers are shouting as they haul on the ropes to pull the net in from the sea.It takes a big collective effort of a dozen or more people to drag the wriggling mass of snapper, mackerel, barracuda, rays, and many more fish besides, onto the beach.Shore fishing like this is a tradition on Sierra Leone's Sherbo Island in West Africa, some 75 miles (120km) south of the capital Freetown.
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