Nosmot Gbadamosi is a freelance journalist reporting from West Africa. She can be reached on Twitter at @nosmotg. https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/contributor/nosmot-gbadamosi/rss en Blue Economy Fisheries Thu, 12 Jul 2018 03:00:09 +0000 Nosmot Gbadamosi https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2018/07/12/gambians-fight-chinese-fishmeal-factory-as-fish-prices-soar-stocks-fall https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2018/07/12/gambians-fight-chinese-fishmeal-factory-as-fish-prices-soar-stocks-fall As foreign-owned fishmeal factories proliferate in West Africa to supply feed for overseas aquaculture operations, prices for a key staple of the local diet are skyrocketing and Gambian fishers find it increasingly hard to compete against industrialized trawlers.