Gambia's Desperate Local Fishermen Attack Foreign Vessels – The Standard Newspaper

Gambia's Desperate Local Fishermen Attack Foreign Vessels – The Standard Newspaper

Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body.His day began as normal, with a shift on one of the foreign-owned vessels that carry out commercial fishing in waters off West Africa. It ended with him so badly injured from an arson attack that he struggles to recover a year later.Local fishermen, angered by what they c…