Fishermen preparing their boats at Joal beach in Senegal.
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Fish at the fish processing site in Joal where fish is preserved by drying and smoking.
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Fish at the fish processing site in Joal where fish is preserved by drying and smoking.
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The 120 meter long Russian super trawler "Mikhail Verbitsky" fishing in West Africa waters. Foreign fleets are plundering the West African waters while fish stocks are diminishing. Bycatch like dolphins end up dead or dying in the giant nets of the super trawler.
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Activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise paint "Pillage and Plunder" on side of pirate Russian pelagic fishing trawler Oleg Naydenov off the coast of Senegal.
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Artisanal fishing pirogues on a beach in Kayar.
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Fishermen check their nets in the fishing port of Ouakam, Dakar.
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Artisanal fishing pirogues at the fishing port of Kafountine, Casamance.
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Fishermen at work in artisanal fishing pirogues with seine nets off of the Senegalese coast, Kafountine, Casamance. Recent canceling of fishing licenses by the the newly elected Senegalese government has been a very important first step towards restoring the fisheries to what they were before large-scale plunder began.
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The Russian flagged fishing trawler Oleg Naydenov is seen moored at Dakar port, following the vessel's arrest by the Senegalese authorities for suspected illegal fishing in the Senegalese EEZ. The ship was detected by a French military plane on 23 December 2013.
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The Kovas Lithuanian flagged fishing trawler at work 30 miles off the coast of Senegal. The Kovas is a massive super trawler operating in West Africa. With 4,544 m3 of fish hold capacity, it contributes to global overfishing by contributing to the depletion of stocks of horse and chub mackerel, sardines and sardinella within the region.
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Ahmed Diamé, Greenpeace Oceans campaigner, and Abdou, Greenpeace volunteer during an activity in Dakar, where hundreds of oceans lovers, fishers and Greenpeace volunteers celebrate World Oceans Day.