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Fleets of factory-ships from Europe and Asia are depleting fishing stocks on the west- African coast, forcing local fishermen to risk their lives by fishing further out to sea or moving into the business of people-trafficking

BY THE FLICKER of candlelight, in a tent on the outskirts of Noudhibou in northern Mauritania, Addib remembers the night she received word that her husband had been killed. He had set off as usual before dawn on a five-day fishing trip at sea. The following evening, a neighbour came to tell Addib that her husband, and father to her six children, had been killed when a foreign fishing trawler had ploughed into his tiny wooden fishing pirogue, killing all seven men on board, just few kilometres from the coast.