Six Chinese supertrawlers have arrived in Liberia, capable of taking over 12,000 tons of fish annually--nearly twice the nation's sustainable catch. Artisanal Liberian canoe fishers fear for their jobs and food security. Foreign long distance fishing vessels pose a growing threat to fish stocks throughout West African waters.
Liberia's National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) issued a rejoinder to this report on 10 August 2020 titled "NaFAA Reacts to Environmental Justice Foundation." Without making any reference to "Chinese" trawlers, the rebuttal dismissed the Environmental Justice Foundation report as "fabricated, baseless, biased and a complete fallacy."
