For the FENAGIE and its members, are there advantages deriving from the fishing agreements with the European Union?
“We still don’t see what advantages there might be for us from the Agreements signed in June 2002 between the Senegalese government and the European Union. However, we are not totally opposed to them in principle; but they will have to take into account the principle of rational management of fishery resources, ensuring that when signing agreements with a country or an organisation, action is taken to preserve fishery resources. “In the specific case of the June 2002 Agreements, we (the FENAGIE) had taken part in eight rounds of negotiations, and no one informed us of the ninth and last. So we are not directly concerned. We are in no way involved in this agreement, because we were presented with a fait accompli. That’s regrettable. We are still waiting for the state to tell us the content of the texts.” If you were able to speak directly to the President of the European Union, what would you say to him? “If we found ourselves face to face with the president of the European Union, we wo
