EJF needs your help to protect Sierra Leone from Illegal Pirate Fishing An Urgent Appeal - Every Penny Helps
In Sierra Leone, foreign trawlers fish illegally within the area restricted for local fishermen, causing overwhelming destruction to marine biodiversity as they take everything in their path. 75% of the catch is thrown back into the sea dying while local fishermen struggle to catch fish on which they and their families depend to survive.
EJF is making an urgent appeal for donations to support our in-country programme in Sierra Leone. The programme will empower and enable community action (monitoring of illegal fishing activity and reporting information to the navy) to faciliate arrests and peacefully drive away the illegal trawlers that threaten their local environment and livelihoods.
%u201CThe children need to eat to grow, and they are underfed %u2026if the trawlers don%u2019t go we cannot survive. We are dependent on the waters and the fish, and if they go we have nothing else.%u201D Rugiatu Fullah, Women%u2019s leader in mosque, Borhol Ngai
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