EVERTHING that we have over here in
In exploiting these riches we must do it with care in order to get as much as we can out of it and at the same time making sure that the generation to come will also benefit from it. However, this seems not to be a priority for the people in the Ministry of Fisheries or at the SFA.
They are selling our resources cheaply. An example of that is the deal with the European Union to fish for tuna in our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). A fee of just over 5 million euros has been agreed between the EU and the local fisheries authority. If one was to divide the Euro 5,355,000 which we are getting for allowing 52 EU boats, yes 52 (fifty-two) to fish in our waters by the “supposedly” 63,000 tons of fish (which no one controls), Seychelles ends up earning a mere Euro 85 for a ton of prime tuna! That is only Euro 85 for 1,000 kilos of fish. This is ludicrous and here we have Rondolph Payet telling our local fishermen and exporters that they cannot fish bourgeois because of over-exploitation!
Who is getting exploited here? The EU controls our fisheries and instead of us catching our own fish to export for at least Euro 10 per kilo, we end up selling our souls for Euro 85 a ton! And they are destroying our tuna stock as well as other fish stock in the process! Absolute madness!!!!! This is clear EU exploitation of
“Sesel pou Seselwa??”