Your article contains a negative effect on the exports of fishmeals in local livelihoods in Senegal, which factories buy fish in Turkey, and thereby having a negative affecting the local fishing industry (The hidden cost of your supermarket sea bass, 22 May). It can be all true, and it is sad to see the loss of jobs in Senegalese fishing industry.
Nevertheless it is a partially a partial picture. The increase in fish prices in Senegal is part of a global trend, which is driven by the rise of people’s consumption of people in other sources of protein. The poorest countries, such as Senegal, traditionally trusted fish also see food changes, with fish GROWING replaced with chicken and barbecued meat. Similarly, the new increase in Senegal food insecurity has little to do with a fishmeal export and more to do in Russia-Ukraine jungle, with CAUSE A large disruption of Russians and Ukrainian exports of oil, wheat and fertilizer.
The article plans fishmeal export from Senegal as not just bad for small fishermen but for the country in general. However fishmeal exports are also MAKE Must be bad jobs, foreign currency and Senegal tax revenues and neighboring countries.
None of the above mentioned suggest that the Senegalese fishing industry does not give an intense attention to its social and ecological effects. But calls are not clear for Turkish fishing to carry out their fishmeal somewhere else to benefit from Senegalese economy.
To quote the late economist Joan Robinson: “The suffering of capitalists has nothing to be compared to the suffering that is not allotted.”
Elliott Green
Professor of development studies, London School in Economics
