Senegal: Traditional fishers watch foreigners haul in the catch

Balanced above his sea canoe's empty hold, Daouda Wade levels an accusatory finger at four blots on the horizon - factory-sized foreign vessels fishing in the Atlantic off West Africa. "Those big boats have caught everything," the 33-year-old fishing captain says. The European-flagged ships are working in Senegal's waters under a four-year, 64 million-euro (about U.S.$75 million) contract between the European Union and Senegal's government, which says the agreement brings in a steady stream of sorely needed cash. "And now there's nothing left for us, the Africans," Wade says, his 25 sweat-streaked crewmen squatting idly atop unused nets piled in the bottom of the canoe.