The super-heated water disturbs the fish up to "15 kilometers from the shore," explains Jewrin Diop, a retired fisherman from a fishing community called Fass Boye, located in Thies, Senegal, a city 70 kilometers from Dakar. For survival reasons, they will move to cooler waters.
Traditional fishermen who want to follow these fish cannot get closer because of the fishing licenses that are often allocated to foreign exploiters. Getting any closer to these giant boats puts their lives at risk of attacks. As of today, the new government has blocked licenses to revise fishing regulations, especially regarding those who earn a living with traditional fishing practices.
It's time to bring to global attention the correlation between irregular migration and the lack of resources that global warming and the anarchic distribution of fishing licenses promote.