7 billion neighbors

Professions of the sea on the verge of extinction?

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Fishermen from the village of Falia, Senegal, with their catch of mackerel.

© Corbis via Getty Images - Barry Lewis

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

At the global level, fish represents a market of 33 billion euros, a growing market for decades.

Since 1950, fisheries and aquaculture production (capture fishing and aquatic farms) has increased ninefold according to the FAO. 

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For artisanal fishing, it is difficult to compete against industrial fishing fleets.

The overexploitation of halieutic resources combined with destructive fishing methods, such as trawling, seine fishing, fishing with explosives lead to a collapse in the number of fish, as does the phenomenon of "bycatch" (accidental catches of fish, generally discarded dead in the water) which would affect 7.3 million tonnes of fish per year.

These practices are also responsible for the degradation of marine habitats, degradation reinforced by climate change as the ocean captures 90% of solar energy and heats up rapidly.

Is responsible fishing possible?

What new professions around fishing?

How to put fishing communities back at the center of fishing activities?  

Issue on the occasion of World Oceans Day on June 8 

With :

- Patrice Brehmer

, researcher in marine ecology at the IRD based at the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (CSRP) in Dakar.

- Hélène Gobert,

Agro-fisheries engineer, Ocean, Fisheries and Aquaculture project team leader at

- Lucie Tetegan

, member and former president of the

And an interview with 

, RFI correspondent in Antananarivo on the cultivation of seaweed in Madagascar.

To go further, find the report by Sarah Tetaud in Belo-sur-mer on the cultivation of seaweed by clicking here 

Musical programming:

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– Matmatah 

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- Serge Ananou  

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