At a time when the sun bows to the sea, the Soumbedioune beach [à Dakar] offers a striking show. The star slowly declines behind the archipelago of the Madeleine Islands, bathed in the ocean of a golden glow. Seab birds, tapered silhouettes against a fire in fire, plunged into the column of water, touching the surface with a bright beak with the quest for prey.
The capricious swell raises the floating detritus which derives according to the currents, silent witnesses of human activity. On the shore, the atmosphere is strangely calm at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. A single boat, almost empty -handed, is brought back by the surf. On board, two fishermen, faces chised by salt and the wind, manifest a cozy disappointment.
Three months after the end of the fishing agreements between Senegal and the European Union (EU) [conclus en 2014 et renouvelés une première fois en 2019, ces derniers n’ont pas été reconduits, la partie européenne invoquant des “défaillances” dans la lutte contre la pêche illégale, et la partie sénégalaise une surexploitation des ressources halieutiques aux dépens des populations locales]the impact of this decision still seems imperceptible. On the platform, artisanal fishing actors
