A young boy stands on a fishing net as a boat unloads it catch. Bakau fishing beach The Gambia West Africa

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The waters of the Gulf of Arguin, off Mauritania's coastline, are the spawning grounds and nurseries of West Africa's rich but seriously threatened fishing stocks. Because of the particular conditions of the shallow waters of the Gulf, fish migrate here to spawn and their young migrate out again when they are old enough. As demand for fish skyrockets across the world, stocks along the West African coast have plummeted. The fishermen of The Gambia are landing smaller and smaller fish.

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