Abdulahi Traore and Ebrie Lagoon

Ebrie Lagoon: We dont catch what our families can consume for a day, he says, pointing to a plastic box holding a few tilapia in his pencil-shaped dugout canoe. After fishing for nearly 10 years in the estuary, called the Ebrie Lagoon, offshore from this city of 3.5 million, its not only the catch thats getting worse the water is too, according to The Star. I found out how little I knew about West Africa and how much there is to learn when I conducted a workshop for journalists on behalf of the United Nations Environment Program here and C TE D Lots of people who fish complain about their catch, but Abdulahi Traore has good reason. Its easy for Canadians to overlook environmental problems like this 100-km West African lagoon, a rich, soupy sea that contains some 150 species of shellfish, but also some of the worlds nastiest pollution. We re not exactly setting a great example with our own water and coastlines. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.