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Piracy in Somalia: "The international community should also stand to protect small scale fishers against the plundering of their livelihoods"


(Bonn, 09.12.2008) The EU resolution to send a navy mission in the region of the Horn of Africa to fight pirates ignores that one of the causes of piracy is poverty. EED and its partner organizations in Africa point out that small fishers in the region are becoming increasingly impoverished.

They cannot survive any more from their catch, since their waters have been emptied by European and Asian large vessels. "The consequences of inconsiderate fishing within the coastal zones of Africa are today visible along the Somali coast as there are everywhere else", says EED Agriculture and fisheries expert Francisco Mari. "Local fishermen nets remain empty, and in order to survive, small scale fishermen follow criminal pirates gangs".

"This reaction to piracy in Germany and other EU member states is unfortunately the expression of militarized thinking. Instead of being concerned with the economic and political causes of piracy, it takes exclusively into account the security of European interests" emphasized Wolfgang Heinrich, EED department for the Horn of Africa.

EED feels that the international community, - which is now united against the criminal pirate actions- , should also stand united to protect small scale fishers against the plundering of their livelihoods. This echoes the demand of the participants to a meeting of West African artisanal fishing communities on "the future of African small scale fisheries", held from December 1-6 in Conakry (Guinea). At that occasion, Dao Gaye, a representative of the Senegalese artisanal fishing sector organisation expressed his surprise at how quickly the industrialised nations are reacting concerning piracy in Somalia: "for years, European and other industrialised countries large trawlers have been pillaging our coasts, but we are still waiting for efficient measures to control them" he said.

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