Fishermen setting out in motorized pirogues from the beach of Nouakchott in the early morning. The official annual catch in Mauritania is 900,000 tons, but reconstructed catch estimates are more than 2M tons.
For the past few decades, the small pelagic fishery has been migrating northward about 5° (300NM) every 10 years due to changing sea temperatures and increased fishing pressure.
