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Our speaker today is Environmental Activist Lamin Jassi.
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Let me tell you a story about Stalling Fish.
My name is Lamin Jasi and I am a trained teacher, community leader, coastal and marine environment activist. I am a native of Gunjour, the biggest fishing village in the Gambia, West Africa.
There are an estimated 25 ,000 inhabitants.
Most of the people here are connected to fishing in some way.
In 2016, a fish mill factory started operations at Gunyur Fish Landing Site.
We thought it would bring improvements to our life.
After just one year, we began to realize a dramatic change in our fish supply.
There were fewer and fewer fish.
As an environmental activist, I started to investigate.
It quickly became clear that because of this fish mill factories, we are experiencing an unusual shortage of fish.
I also came to understand that this mill factory was accepted by our village leadership because of the host of viable economic promises they made, such as providing 600 good jobs, constructing main road that links the village to the fish landing site and building fish market for the community.
All of these promises are not fulfilled up to this very day.
And this clearly tell us that this fish mill factory is not to be trusted and most of their information I also came to know that the main raw material for this factory are fresh small pelagic fish.
Most people in the Gambia depend on the same small pelagic fish as their main protein intake and source of livelihood.
This is the keepers fish that every family can afford daily.
and is the foundation of our local economy.
The factory finances the majority of fishermen and their catches go straight to the factory.
So women have only leftover fees to process and sell.
Women started struggling and even losing their livelihood and jobs in fish processing.
Young people also started to lose hub, Because most of the youth depend on tourism.
The unbearable smell from the factory killed tourism in the area.
Most of the youth got onto the street.
Crime rate accelerated, poverty creaps one striving community, and drug and substance abuses increased.
Youth search for new opportunities.
Hundreds if not thousands of youth are rich in the Atlantic Ocean trying to reach Europe.
And there are thousands of youth whose whereabouts are still unknown, and their families are still mourning for their loved ones.
In 2018 we came to realize that the fish mill factory at Gunjurfis land inside is disposing of their industrial waste into the ocean, at the very area where boats are landing.
This time around, I engaged the management of factories.
I gave them an ultimatum of one week to remove their waste pipes, or we will organize people to remove it for them.
when they failed to remove their West pipe.
After one week, we went on as promised to remove the West pipe with hundreds of people.
After one week, five other people and myself were arrested and detained at the police station.
We had to go to court for six months, but in the end we were all acquitted and discharged.
After this round trial, I continue to educate additional fishermen, women processors, young people about the impact of fish milk factories.
And I also have been engaging government officials to revisit the decision of the government and protect the presence and features of this country.
However, the government recently decided to sign a six -year fishing agreement with the European Union, which allowed bigger fishing vessels from the EU and China to fish in our waters.
As a result, this became more scarce and expensive.
people's way of eating had to change direction to an imported chicken from Europe which has become cheaper than local fish.
This has led to health problems and with Gambia's fragile health care system, our source of animal protein intake being compromised by fishing vessels and fish meal factories.
The situation become worse and unbearable.
In recent years, most of the fishermen in the region began to catch juvenile fish, that were not fit for human consumption, but it all went straight into the factory.
I asked the fishery staff responsible for enforcement of fishless regulations, which prohibit catching juvenile fish, but to no avail.
Instead of feeding us locally, all those fish are turned into fish meal.
Then that fish meal goes out of the country, mostly to China, Europe, and South America, to salmon farms and other aquaculture farms. The good news is that our organization is working with few international organizations to build the capacity of women processors, additional fishermen to understand what is at stake and collect data at Gunju, Khartoum and Sanyam Fish Landing site to inform decision makers and save the future of this country.
It is my hope to bring fish back to these waters and not just for the Gambia.
The fish belongs to the whole region.
We need to bring the Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania and others together to fight and protect our water and our fish.
I can't do it alone.
We can't do it alone.
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That was Lamin Jassi speaking at the Ted countdown dilemma series, Food.
Lamin's story is painful, not only because of the devastating effects this industry has had on his local community, but also because of the false promises the factory made to village leadership, the promise of good jobs, the promise of more local infrastructure, the promise of a community market and in turn, they decimated a way of life people have relied on for years.
It's hard to think that this is just one story in one village in one country in West Africa.
Surely there are countless others.
Laman's story reminds us to cultivate a healthy skepticism around the best practices of major corporations, and that not all forms of globalized industrialization are good.
I'm grateful and deeply admire the work that Laman is doing to advocate for his community, both on a local and international level.
But he shouldn't have to do it alone.
We have a role to play, too, whether as people embedded inside major corporations or consumers of products made by major corporations.
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