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Mauritania - Selling the Future
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Mauritania - Selling the Future

2001 · 24 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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In Nouadhibou, Mauritania's main fishing port, a crowd of angry fishermen gathers after a pirogue goes missing overnight, one man still unaccounted for. Reporter Kim Willsher, filming for Unreported World, traces the anger back to a deal that pays Mauritania 54 million pounds a year to let roughly 250 European trawlers fish its waters. Local fishermen say they now have to travel farther and stay out longer to find a decent catch, a change they blame for 290 deaths among their ranks the previous year. One man describes catches down to a tenth of what they used to be, and says pirogues are being run down by trawlers working illegally close to shore. Willsher rides along with the military unit tasked with policing the agreement and watches it pursue a small local boat instead of the EU vessels reported using illegal nets. The Minister of Fisheries defends the deal bluntly, since it supplies half the country's hard currency, while the fishermen say they see none of that money and are left to absorb the risk.