This report shows that Swedish and other EU fishermen are profiting by exploiting the resources in the occupied territory of Western Sahara, by shifting their businesses from Sweden to Africa, despite the fact that the Swedish government is opposing any EU fishing off the coast of Western Sahara because of concern that it infringes the rights and interests of local communities.
Greenpeace therefore demands that EU Member States:
remove excess fishing capacity by scrapping or converting to non-fishing purposes those vessels that have the biggest impact in terms of overfishing and the destruction of marine habitats;
allocate access to fishing opportunities in a way that rewards fishermen who minimise the environmental impacts of fishing and that maximises the socio-economic benefits for local communities; and
prevent the transfer of excess fishing capacity to other regions.
Greenpeace further demands that the EU stop exploiting the fishing grounds off the coast of Western Sahara an
