The soumbedioune fish market, Dakar, 2022 (photography)

Fish on the beach at the soumbedioune fish market, Dakar, Senegal, West Africa. Forced migrations. Many fishermen are forced to leave their country due to the scarcity of resources. Thousands of Senegalese lose their lives every year trying to reach the Spanish coast through the Canary Islands aboard artisanal fishing boats (pateras). Some of them flee aboard their own boats that they previously used to earn a living fishing. For decades, the warming of the sea has been affecting the large fishing grounds. In addition, the processes of economic and commercial globalization imposed by Western countries on impoverished countries generate economic fractures with repercussions of great magnitude. Fishing in Senegal is of fundamental importance for the country's economy and development. According to official data from 2005, the fishing sector employed almost 60,000 people, and indirectly more than 600,000 -a good part of them women, dedicated to the transformation of fish-, and represented almost 2% of GDP, in addition to being a source basic protein for the majority of the population. However, the increasing importance of industrial fishing compared to artisanal fishing is generating a growing overexploitation, which leads to a decrease in the catch and an increase in prices. This ruins the economy of many families while jeopardizing food security. A large part of the industrial fleet is of international origin, installed in the country as a result of commercial and exploitation agreements in the 1970s.