With no possibility of fishing in their country due to the activity of European trawlers, thousands of Senegalese have had no choice but to cross the Atlantic in search of a better future which, in reality, confronts them with the harshness of the system.
Today, the Spanish fishing industry is languishing in the absence of generational replacement. The headlines have been warning for several years about the disappearance of numerous fleets due to lack of personnel. Forty-two percent of fishermen are over 50 years old. The study states that “students in maritime-fishing training programs prefer to work in the merchant or recreational navy”.
Many of them are on the verge of retirement. With hardly any solutions on the horizon, the recruitment of fishermen from Senegal has emerged not only in Cartagena, but throughout the country, as the great alternative.
