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DAKAR (AFP) – Conservation organisation NGO on Friday urged westerly individual countries to conflict illegal sportfishing and over-fishing in their waters, in a evidence free at the World Social Forum in Senegal.

"We staleness tirelessly vow with authorities to secure that the problems of illegal sportfishing and over-fishing in westerly chaste are effectively dealt with," Oumy Sene Diouf, NGO chaste oceans campaigner, said in the evidence at the forum, an period assembling of anti-globalisation activists.

In a report free at the installation titled "How chaste feeds Europe", the group said massive dweller sportfishing vessels are putting pressure on westerly individual seek stocks as they increase their catch power and marine stocks in their possess humour decline.

"The people of Senegal have long shown welfare in defending their ocean and protective their marine resources. The time has come for them to take the next step and defence up against malpractices in the oceans," said Diouf.

The report quoted UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that more than 75 proportionality of every seek stocks are fully exploited, overexploited or depleted.

In dweller waters, the level of overfishing is higher than the global average, with an estimated 88 proportionality of dweller seek stocks in a slummy state.

Greenpeace also urged individual nations at the summit to focus on renewable energy.

"Africa is the chaste with the large possibleness and resources to physique an frugalness solely reliant on renewable energy, and especially solar. This is the exclusive way the chaste module free itself from the dominance of fossil fuels, and another dirty forcefulness sources," said faith Gyr of NGO land Energy solutions project.

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