In a report published on Tuesday 12 September, the NGO Oceana condemns illegal fishing activities, authorised by four EU countries, in the waters of The Gambia and Equatorial Guinea between April 2012 and August 2015.
Using data from Global Fishing Watch, an online technology tool that provides the first global view of commercial fishing activity, Oceana found that Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain awarded “private fishing authorisations, which granted individual vessels access to these...