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Dakar, July 18 (APS) – Greenpeace announced in a statement that its activists "peacefully protested" in front of the premises of the National Agency for Maritime Affairs (ANAM) of Senegal in Dakar on Wednesday to "demand" the publication of the status of the process of re-gauging of industrial fishing vessels.
The process of re-gauging of industrial fishing vessels, started since 2016, "still lingers, despite the commitments made by the Ministry of Fisheries and the Maritime Economy and the heavy financial, social and economic consequences. that tonnage fraud continues to generate in Senegal ", according to the environmental protection NGO.
"We ask the Government of Senegal to take stock of the progress of this process and to publish the results of the internal investigation carried out on this subject, in accordance with the international and regional commitments made by the country" said Ahmed Diamé, ocean campaigner at Greenpeace Africa, in statements reported in the statement.
"Under-reporting the gross tonnage of a vessel is an offense under Senegalese law and international conventions," he said.
Greenpeace states that the elements of the existence of a "massive fraud on the declaration of the gross tonnage of some industrial fishing vessels were revealed to the general public in May 2015" by its report "Scam on the African coasts: the hidden face of Chinese fishing and mixed societies in Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Guinea ".
In this report, the International Organization states that it has revealed that fishing vessels operating in the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of these three countries have underreported gross tonnages.
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