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In the islands of the Saloum delta, Senegal, the vast majority of women make a living from shellfish fishing. Their main resource, the ark, has been collected for millennia on these shores of West Africa. But the resource has been declining for more than twenty years, which endangers this artisanal fishery. Is this phenomenon due to pressure from fishing or to the consequences of climate change on the fragile ecosystem of this estuary?
To find answers, French and Senegalese scientists have set up several participatory science programs.
A report by Virginie de Rocquigny with the ecologist Yoann Thomas of IRD.
Guest : Sylvain Perret, Director of the Environments and Societies Department at CIRAD
The fisherwomen of Saloum
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