Some 30 years ago, turtle meat was sold in the streets of Joal, one of the most important fishing ports in Senegal, and in Fadiouth, the port’s sister village built on an artificial island made from heaps of shells.
The sea turtles navigate their way along this tropical stretch of the Atlantic during their migration of more than a thousand kilometers between the volcanic archipelago of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, just south of Senegal, where they return to lay eggs when they reach sexual maturity. On a dugout canoe with a multicolored hull at the limit of the protected area, four young bare-chested lads haul in their nets. It is the start of the migration period and they have snagged a 100-kilogram turtle.
Since 2000, Sall, as head of the local fishermen’s association and manager of the MPA, has made local populations aware of the protection of turtles, in particular by organizing “cinema debates”. Rather than imposing restrictions, the MPA is trying to educate the communities in the economic benefits so that they join the project.From June to October, a few dozen turtles stop to lay eggs on the beaches of Joal. About 20 MPA agents and village volunteers protect their nests with fences.The danger lies largely at the feet of monitor lizards who like the eggs, the birds who swoop down just after the young turtles have hatched and the monkfish who move in once they enter the sea.
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