Just a few years ago, Nouadhibou was a city with great prospect; lovely clean beaches with a great touristic future. That was the case until 2010, when the Mauritanian government licensed 30 fish flour factories to produce organic flour.

The new fishing strategy risks depriving local fishermen from their work. In Mauritania, local fisheries weighs 90% of all jobs among the 53000 workers in the fishing sector The fishing industry is the main provider of job in the country and plays a major role in fighting unemployment in the country while it contributes to a quarter of all tax income and half of all foreign currency income.

For more than 20 years, cattle breeders from the Assaba wilaya and areas in Tagant have deplored more and more signs of a deadly disease affecting their stocks. Signs are belly bloating and vomiting. They appear and within only a few days the affected animal dies.