{"id":2098,"date":"2022-02-05T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/illegal-overfishing-by-chinese-trawlers-leaves-sierra-leone-locals-starving-says-guardian-report"},"modified":"2022-03-28T00:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T00:56:17","slug":"illegal-overfishing-by-chinese-trawlers-leaves-sierra-leone-locals-starving-says-guardian-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/economy\/illegal-overfishing-by-chinese-trawlers-leaves-sierra-leone-locals-starving-says-guardian-report","title":{"rendered":"Illegal overfishing by Chinese trawlers leaves Sierra Leone locals \u2018starving\u2019 \u2013 says Guardian report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Many questions are being asked about the competence of the Bio-led government in managing the Sierra Leone economy after four years in power. And the fishing sector is no exception, whiles the government loses hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue every year from the country\u2019s natural resources.<\/p>\n

Incompetence, rampant corruption and poor governance have become the hallmark of a government that is solely bent on staying in office for a second term, despite the massive damage being done to the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

With unemployment at an alltime high of over 80%, declining export revenue, and a currency that is losing its value against the Dollar and Sterling every month, the government has resorted to massive borrowing \u2013 ramping up the country\u2019s debt levels to an alltime high of almost $3 Billion with very little evidence of government spending on improved healthcare, provision of reliable supply of electricty and water.<\/p>\n

A recent report published by the UK Guardian Newspaper speaks of grotesque failure by the Bio-led government to manage the country\u2019s fishing sector which is being bled by foreign trawlers, costing the government over $50 million in lost revenue.<\/p>\n

This is the Guardian Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As illegal industrial-scale fishing by foreign fleets pillages fish populations, despairing coastal communities say they feel powerless
\nAlong Tombo\u2019s crumbling waterfront, dozens of hand-painted wooden boats are arriving in the blistering midday sun with the day\u2019s catch for the scrum of the market in one of Sierra Leone\u2019s largest fishing ports.<\/p>\n

In a scrap of shade at the bustling dock, Joseph Fofana, a 36-year-old fisherman, is repairing a torn net. Fofana says he earns about 50,000 leone (\u00a33.30) for a brutal, 14-hour day at sea, crammed in with 20 men, all paying the owner for use of his vessel. \u201cThis is the only job we can do,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s not my choice. God carried me here. But we are suffering.
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\n\u201dEvery day, about 13,000 small boats like Fofana\u2019s cast off from Sierra Leone\u2019s 314-mile (506km) coastline. Fisheries employ 500,000 of the west African nation\u2019s nearly 8 million people, represent 12% of the economy and are the source of 80% of the population\u2019s protein consumption.<\/p>\n

But a dozen fishermen interviewed by the Guardian say their catch is dwindling rapidly due to sustained overfishing on a large scale. \u201cMany years ago, you could see fish in the water from here, even big ones,\u201d says Fofana. \u201cNot any more. There\u2019s less fish than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tombo\u2019s fishing community put the blame squarely on foreign fleets. About 40% of industrial licences are owned by Chinese vessels; though legal, locals say they pay meagre fees for their permits, under-declare their catch and add little to the local economy.
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\nJoseph Fofana says he earns \u00a33.30 for a 14-hour day at sea. \u2018This is the only job we can do,\u2019 he says. \u2018It\u2019s not my choice.\u2019<\/p>\n

At the same time, illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing is a huge problem, costing Sierra Leone $50m a year, President Julius Maada Bio said in 2018. Last year, a joint operation by the Sierra Leonean navy and the conservation organisation Sea Shepherd Global led to the arrest of five foreign-owned fishing vessels in two days, including two Chinese-flagged trawlers found to be fishing without a licence.<\/p>\n

Those in Tombo who have protested at the illegal fishing say they face violence from the crews. Alusine Kargbo, a 34-year-old mackerel fisherman, says trawlers\u2019 crews threw boiling water at him when he confronted them over fishing in areas where trawling is prohibited. \u201cBefore, the trawlers weren\u2019t in our zones, now they are,\u201d Kargbo says. \u201cThe difference is so great [in terms of his catches] compared with before, I\u2019m struggling to feed my children.
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\n\u201dAlusine Kargbo says boiling water was thrown at him when he confronted a trawler fishing illegally.<\/p>\n

Others are being forced farther afield in search of fish. Ibrahim Bangura, 47, often goes on three-day fishing trips into the Atlantic, a deadly venture in the rainy season. But while the potential reward is greater, he says conflicts with Chinese trawlers are more likely. \u201cThere\u2019s so, so many of them,\u201d says Bangura. \u201cThey disturb my property, trash my nets. And if you try to stop them, they will fight you.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to dominating licensed markets, China is consistently ranked as the worst offender for IUU fishing in a global index of 152 countries. Across west Africa, illegal trawling is devastating marine ecosystems and undermining local fisheries, which are a critical source of jobs and food security. A study in 2017 found that Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mauritania, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea lose $2.3bn (\u00a31.7bn) a year due to IUU fishing, which amounts to 65% of the legal reported catch.<\/p>\n

Some experts warn that Sierra Leone\u2019s coastal communities face devastating consequences of legal and illegal overfishing. \u201cThe Chinese fleet has been taking the profits of the fisheries for 30 years and the impact on fish stocks has been terrible,\u201d says Stephen Akester, an adviser to Sierra Leone\u2019s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources between 2009 and 2021. \u201cThe resources are disappearing, fishermen are suffering, families are starving. Many have just one meal a day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine working for weeks and not being able to catch food,\u201d says Woody Backie Koroma of the Sierra Leone Artisanal Fishermen Union. \u201cThey are getting debts. They go to bed without food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such is the strain, says Koroma, that one debt-ridden fisherman in Tombo killed himself last year after his boat was confiscated by the local authorities.<\/p>\n

Efforts to manage the sector, including the creation of an inshore exclusion zone that prohibits all but subsistence fishing in the six nautical miles closest to shore, installing movement trackers on industrial trawlers and creating community fishing associations to promote sustainability, have so far had limited impact due to policing and funding challenges, according to officials. A month-long ban on industrial fishing in 2019 was criticised as being too short to allow stocks to replenish.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe receive a lot of reports and intelligence of illegal fishing,\u201d says Abbas Kamara, an officer at Tombo\u2019s fisheries ministry. \u201cBut it\u2019s difficult to corroborate. The trawlers work day and night.<\/p>\n

\u201cFish is very important to Tombo \u2013 it\u2019s how people survive \u2013 but the fish go to the Chinese,\u201d says Kamara.<\/p>\n

The Chinese embassy in Freetown did not respond to the Guardian\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Amara Kalone, at the Environmental Justice Foundation, a charity that monitored foreign vessels in Sierra Leone until last year when funding for the project ran out, says fleets are adapting their tactics to evade restrictions brought against industrial fishing.<\/p>\n

\u201cSemi-industrial ships are coming closer to the estuaries, and they are in a legal grey area,\u201d he says. \u201cOther crews are using very fine, monofilament nets, which are illegal but hard to track.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another major concern is the rise of marauding fishing crews from neighbouring countries such as Guinea and Liberia, which catch juvenile fish in protected breeding grounds, fatally undermining fish populations, according to Salieu Sankoh, coordinator of the West Africa Regional Fisheries Programme in Sierra Leone. \u201cIt\u2019s a serious threat to the nutrition of the population,\u201d he says. \u201cSome local boats go to the sea and come back with nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Tombo, as the sky turns orange over Sierra Leone\u2019s Western Peninsula and the ocean becomes unusually still, a sense of despair sets in for the many artisanal fishers struggling to stay afloat.<\/p>\n

Low hauls mean that Ali Mamy Koroma, a 40-year-old fisherman with two wives and six children, has had to borrow 1m Leone (\u00a365) to pay his bills. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m drowning,\u201d says Koroma, slumped against the wall at the back of Tombo\u2019s indoor market. \u201cBut I can\u2019t swim. There is no way out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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