Export of Fish oil, meal a threat to millions in Africa, Group says

Greenpeace said "hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fish are made into meal or oil for export, to the detriment of about 40 million African men and women" [Photo, AFP]

The exporting of tonnes of fish oil and fish meal from Africa to China and Europe poses a serious danger to the diets of millions of Africans, the Greenpeace environmental group said Wednesday.

The group, at a press conference in Dakar, said it had identified 50 factories producing fish oil and meal, mainly in Mauritania but also in other West African nations such as Senegal and The Gambia.