Associations denounce the “Far West” of tuna fishing in Africa

It’s an April Fool’s joke that didn’t make the environmental association Bloom or the transparency of public life, Anticor, laugh much. On April 1, 2022, the person responsible within the administration for negotiating France’s access to African tuna resources was recruited by Orthongel, the French organization of frozen and deep-frozen tuna producers, “the lobby of industrial fishing”, according to Frédéric Le Manach, scientific director of the Bloom anti-overfishing association.