Senegal: a ship sunk to serve as a refuge for fish
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Off Dakar, a ship was sunk on Friday August 13 at the bottom of the ocean to become a future artificial reef intended for the restoration of fishery resources and habitats.
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A ship was sunk at the bottom of the ocean, off Dakar, this Friday, August 13.
It must become a future artificial reef, intended for the restoration of fishery resources and habitats.
An operation led by the Ministry of Fisheries and the coalition of players in this sector.
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With our correspondent in Dakar,
Théa Ollivier
Pulled by a tug, the old fishing boat arrives off Dakar.
Half an hour after opening the valves, the rusty ship is submerged under water for a second life: that of an artificial reef.
Before this immersion, it took four months to clean it up, explains El Hadj Niang, vice-president of the Coalition of Fisheries Actors in Senegal (Caps): “
By clean-up, we mean removing all non-degradable materials, plastic. , nylon threads, polluting liquids such as diesel, oils, nitrogen ...
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This boat was given to the Senegalese State precisely by the Caps to participate in the regeneration of fishery resources, indicates its president Aliou Thiam: "
Fishery products are becoming increasingly rare and yet everyone knows that fishing remains. among the pillars of our national economy
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The immersion took place in the presence of Alioune Ndoye, Minister of Fisheries.
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We are talking about fighting against all the practices that make Senegal live like the countries of the sub-region, regularly with income and resource problems.
We have to reorganize the practices and therefore in that, we must do everything to rehabilitate all these reefs which allow the resource to reproduce.
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Senegalese waters are gradually emptying under the pressure of industrial fishing, especially European and Asian.
According to Greenpeace, 500,000 tonnes of fish are caught in West Africa to be transformed into food for aquaculture.
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