Gambia, like many of its West African neighbours, has embraced the lucrative production of fishmeal. But the booming aquaculture industry, widely hailed by conservationists as the best hope for slowing ocean depletion, is polluting waters, decimating fish stocks and threatening the lives of millions worldwide.
probes the impact of fishmeal factories and foreign trawlers in West Africa, exposing how a fifth of all marine life pulled from the sea is ground up to feed farmed fish and why solutions meant to combat ocean depletion could be accelerating the problem., which is dedicated to reporting on the human rights violations and environmental crimes which are committed with impunity on the open seas, where 50 million people work.