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logo 9/24/2024 4:22:46 PM     
Chinese trawlers are emptying West African fishing grounds 
By Torbjörn Wester in Accra GH Source: telegraph 6/5/2023
Torbjörn Wester in Accra
Credit: Simon Townsley/The Telegraph
The wooden canoe is painted with scriptures. They’re meant to bring good fortune to the craft’s fishermen and protect against the dangers of the Atlantic – sky-high ocean waves, creatures of the deep and, increasingly, industrial Chinese trawlers.
 

“Colleagues have drowned when their canoes have capsized in the wake of trawlers. But the Chinese don’t care,” says Samuel Otoo, one of the canoe’s two crewmen.

 
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