![]() ![]() The benefits promised from the initial discovery of energy off the coast haven't materialised. The rig was the final straw for Saint-Louis, pushing it to the brink of economic disaster, according to locals, officials and advocates. The COVID-19 pandemic shut down market sales of the tiny hauls they could manage. Thousands of foreign industrial trawlers, many of them illegal, snapped up vast amounts of fish, and local men in small wooden boats couldn't compete. Sea erosion from climate change washed away homes, forcing moves. Saint-Louis, Senegal's historic centre for fishing, has faced many troubles over the past decade. Boxes of fish turned into small buckets, then nothing at all.Ī woman sits next to baskets filled with fish as she works at a market on the shore of the Senegal river in Saint Louis. With 90 per cent of the town's 250,000 people relying on fishing for income, the catch - and paychecks - were shrinking. Soon the work was overtaking the diattara, a word in the local Wolof language for the fertile fishing ground that lies on the ocean floor beneath the platform. ![]() An exclusion zone was created that prevents fishermen from working in the area.Īt first, the restricted areas were small, but they expanded to 1.6 square kilometres - roughly the size of 300 football fields - with construction of the platform that looms about 10 kilometres offshore. To make way for the drilling of some 425 billion cubic metres of natural gas discovered off the coasts of Senegal and neighbouring Mauritania in West Africa in 2015, access to fertile fishing waters was cut off. El Niño is back: Surging temperatures bring extreme weather and threaten lives.Inside the Indian village where the rising sea has stolen clean drinking water. ![]()
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