{"id":16270,"date":"2026-05-23T05:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/fish-oil-and-fishmeal-industry-harming-food-security-in-west-africa-warns-un-fish-oil\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:10:22","slug":"fish-oil-and-fishmeal-industry-harming-food-security-in-west-africa-warns-un-fish-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/fish-oil-and-fishmeal-industry-harming-food-security-in-west-africa-warns-un-fish-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish oil and fishmeal industry harming food security in west Africa, warns UN | Fish oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The UN\u2019s food agency has warned that the \u201coverexploitation\u201d of fish in west Africa by the growing global fishmeal and fish oil industry is having a \u201cconsiderably negative impact\u201d on food security, undermining the ability of local communities to feed themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/cb7990en\/cb7990en.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report<\/a> said that in Senegal, where three more huge fishmeal factories opened between 2015 and 2019, the industry was \u201clikely increasing the risk\u201d of overexploitation of sardinella and bonga, two pelagic fish on which communities depend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In Uganda, where the factories rely&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/feb\/10\/fish-oil-and-fishmeal-industry-harming-food-security-in-west-africa-warns-un\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN\u2019s food agency has warned that the \u201coverexploitation\u201d of fish in west Africa&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1147,1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mauritania","category-1212"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}