Overfishing and Pollution: Threats to Gambia’s Blue Economy

These days, fisherfolk in Sanyang, a coastal community in The Gambia, have to compete with large trawlers.

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Industrial pollution from a local factory producing fishmeal that's exported to China poses a further threat to their livelihoods.

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