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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Emmanuelle Landais

Foreign-owned fishmeal factories in Senegal threaten local livelihoods

Fishermen on their pirogue boat, Dakar, Senegal. Getty Images/ Guillermo Navarro

About a quarter of all the fish caught in the oceans don’t land directly on our plates.

They’re churned into something called fishmeal.

That fishmeal is mainly used to feed farmed fish, which account for more than half of the seafood we consume globally.

A recent influx of foreign-owned fishmeal factories is threatening the livelihoods of fishermen in Senegal.

Emmanuelle Landais reports.

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