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bm276 Mauritania, Greenpeace, and Bottom Trawling
Following my guest a few weeks ago, Pauline Bax, who discussed her visit to Mauritania and her research into the issue of selling fishing rights to EU companies, several experts from around the world were quite upset. Their frustration was related to the issue of ocean bottom trawling, a practice which has been banned... »
Mauritania and Greenpeace, Round 2
An unexpected series of emails came my way today from several concerned citizens around the world, as well as Greenpeace Netherlands. The topic of these emails was a reaction to my podcast with Pauline last week, regarding some of her work in West Africa over the last year. In that program I brought up the... »
bm273 Spam Producers and Fishing Rights in West Africa
One of my all time favorite guests on the program, Ivory Coast based journalist Pauline Bax, came to visit me in Amsterdam last week. We sat down to talk about her work on the topics of people who work in the spam business in Ivory Coast and the fishing industry in Mauritania. Highly recommended, as... »