For lack of boats, illegal fishing keeps flourishing

Fishermen manoeuvre to dock their boats on Lake Tanganyika. PHOTO | FEDERICO SCOPPA | AFP

Africa's Eastern seaboard countries lack vessels to patrol Indian Ocean waters to enforce maritime rules.

The east coast of Africa from Somali to Mozambique scored 45 out of 100 in the ranking for maritime enforcement while the island states of Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros and Mauritius collectively scored 50.