– Off West Africa, the sea is full of fish. Sardines, mackerel, groupers, which are basic ingredients of local cuisine, from Senegal to Cameroon. For how much longer ?
Massively fished and immediately exported to neighboring countries or to the other side of the globe, these “small pelagics” are gradually disappearing from African stalls and from the plates of the most modest consumers. In Senegal, the price of flat sardinella doubled between 2015 and 2022. Consumption is collapsing: in ten years the consumption of small fish per capita has been halved.
In 2019, Greenpeace estimated that 500,000 tons of these small fish were caught off Senegal, Gambia and Mauritania to be processed into meals and oils. Four years later, the trend is far from reversing.
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