The Politics of Fishmeal in Gambia

The double-edged sword of foreign investment

I recently went on a long patrol off the coast of Gambia to investigate the topic of fish meal, which consists of high-protein pellets made by grinding up fish caught at sea. These pellets then get fed to farmed fish to fatten them up faster, and the topic interested me because fish farming was supposed to slow ocean depletion but it's actually doing th…