Robbing West Africa

In the past year,the eyes of billions of people have turned toward Africa. Governments,celebrities and millions of people around the world have called for fair trade,droppingdebt,and encouraging development across the continent.But,cast your eyes from the land to the sea and many of the problems those demands have highlighted are equally relevant,though the problems go unnoticed.fishing within a few hundred metres of the Guinea coastline, well inside their exclusive economic zone. In just one day in 2001, a Greenpeace survey ship estimated 34% of the vessels observered fishing off Guinea were there illegally. The UK Department for International Development estimates this cash and food starved nation is losing US$100 million each year in stolen fish.