The Galicians Salvador Fojón and Carlos García-Ramos will journey for every week to the city of Yoff-TonghorThat is the third version of this threat prevention mission within the follow of divingThe initiative is promoted by the NGO Ecodesarrollo Gaia with the collaboration of two professionals from the NGO Solidariedade Galega1,000 fishermen use diving
The coaching that Fojón and García-Ramos will give this yr can be attended by round 30 representatives of the completely different fishermen’s associations within the space, who will later switch the data acquired to the remainder of their colleagues. Today, it’s estimated that within the areas of Yoff, Ngor and Dakar there are about 1,000 fishermen who use diving as a way to acquire their catch.
In the 2 earlier editions of this system, practically 60 individuals had been skilled on this matter, of which 92% lacked coaching and 47% had ever had an accident whereas diving.
Safely enhance the follow of diving
The solely studying that this inhabitants has in regards to the diving method is thru phrase of mouth, with an awesome lack of know-how in regards to the dangers and severe penalties {that a} dangerous follow of this exercise may cause, in addition to a scarcity of fabric essential to develop it safely (depth gauge, strain gauge, clock and pc).
Currently, there are various younger individuals in Yoff with bodily issues, primarily mobility, attributable to accidents associated to diving, there are additionally some instances of impotence and a number of other individuals who died throughout the exercise.
Salvador Fojón (standing, proper) repeats this yr and was accompanied within the earlier version by the physician Jesús Herranz (left) CANCELED
The leap into spearfishing
In latest years, overfishing and poor practices by industrial fishing fleets are depleting the fisheries on which many individuals in Africa rely for his or her lives, making it more and more troublesome for Yoff-Tonghor fishermen to cowl their quotas. and so they have to maneuver far into extra harmful waters.
These difficulties, which have been growing in recent times, encourage increasingly more unemployed younger individuals to resolve on spearfishing because the final labor redoubt, because of the low funding required for its growth and since it gives financial returns.
Projects already carried out in Peru and Nicaragua
However, there isn’t a regulated coaching to follow this kind of exercise and there’s no requirement on the a part of the authorities to approve its follow. The NGO Ecodesarrollo Gaia, within the growth of its initiatives in Yoff-Tonghor, detected this case and the well being issues suffered by fishermen resulting from poor diving follow.
For this motive, the NGO held a gathering in November 2017 with members of the Yoff Fishermen’s Association with the intention to discover options to this case, through which it was agreed to hold out this coaching mission.
For its implementation, Ecodesarrollo Gaia contacted Solidariedade Galega, because it has professionals specialised in underwater drugs who had beforehand carried out analysis, help and coaching initiatives for divers in different nations similar to Peru and Nicaragua.
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