How Somalia lost millions of dollars to fish poachers
A fisherman carries fish on his head on the shores of the Indian ocean in Mogadishu. Somalian waters are some of the world’s most productive with countless species of commercially valuable fish. PHOTO FILE | REUTERS
Up to 2.4 million tonnes of fish have been caught by foreign fleets off Somali waters in the past six decades, a new study shows.
The study notes that from the 1990s, much of the fish was shipped away by foreign trawlers, denying the country millions of dollars in fisheries revenues every year.
