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The Coastal Town Standing Between Dredgers and the Benguela

Oceans & Coasts

🇳🇦 Namibia

Namibia's cold Benguela upwelling feeds a fishery employing 22,000 people; a proposal to vacuum phosphate off the seabed beneath it has been fought to a standstill for fifteen years.

13kpeopleNamibians employed offshore by the fishing industry
8,800peopleNamibians employed onshore by the fishing industry
2,011yearYear the group formed
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