A worker transports mackerels in the Basque port of Bermeo, northern Spain, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Vincent West 

Fishermen offload mackerels in the Basque port of Bermeo, northern Spain, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Vincent West 

Workers offload mackerels in the Basque port of Bermeo, northern Spain, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Vincent West 

Fishermen offload mackerels in the Basque port of Bermeo, northern Spain, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Vincent West 

A fisherman offloads mackerels in the Basque port of Bermeo, northern Spain, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Vincent West 

Fishermen offload mackerels in the Basque port of Bermeo, northern Spain, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Vincent West 

Protesters with mackerels in their mouths take part in a protest outside the U.N. Ocean Conference to demand member states to finalise a treaty to protect the high seas, in Lisbon, Portugal, June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

A protester puts a mackerel in her mouth as she takes part in a protest outside the U.N. Ocean Conference to demand member states to finalise a treaty to protect the high seas, in Lisbon, Portugal, June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

Protesters with mackerels in their mouths take part in a protest outside the U.N. Ocean Conference to demand member states to finalise a treaty to protect the high seas, in Lisbon, Portugal, June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

A protester with a mackerel in her mouth takes part in a protest outside the U.N. Ocean Conference to demand member states to finalise a treaty to protect the high seas, in Lisbon, Portugal, June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

A protester with a mackerel in his mouth takes part in a protest outside the U.N. Ocean Conference to demand member states to finalise a treaty to protect the high seas in Lisbon, Portugal, June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

Sliced Mackerel fish are seen wrapped in plastic on a table at chef Jordan Bailey's two-Michelin starred restaurant Aimsir during preparations to re-open as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions begin to ease in Celbridge, Ireland, June 2, 2021. Picture taken June 2, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne 

Boats are moored in Mackerel Cove near where Julie Dimperio Holowach likely died instantaneously when bitten by a shark off Bailey Island in Harpswell, Maine, U.S., July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder 

Mackerels are displayed in the seafood pavilion at Rungis International wholesale food market following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Rungis, south of Paris, May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier 

French workers fillet mackerels in a fish processing plant in the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, January 29, 2020. Picture taken January 29, 2020. EU fishermen will lose the automatic right to fish in British waters once Britain leaves the European Union. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol 

View of a warehouse at the Ramirez fish canning factory in Matosinhos, Portugal February 12, 2018. Portugal’s Ramirez canning company touts itself as the oldest cannery in the world. The company was born in 1853 and a little more than a decade later started canning tuna, which were then abundant along the Portuguese coast. Today, five generations of Ramirezes later, they operate a state-of-the-art canning factory in Matosinhos shaped like a can of fish. Today, the company also cans anchovies, sardines, mackerel, cod and other species. Much of the fish is local, but it now has to import fish as well. It exports the canned fish the world over. Picture taken February 12, 2018. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

A view of cans in a deposit at Ramirez fish canning factory in Matosinhos, Portugal February 12, 2018. Portugal’s Ramirez canning company touts itself as the oldest cannery in the world. The company was born in 1853 and a little more than a decade later started canning tuna, which were then abundant along the Portuguese coast. Today, five generations of Ramirezes later, they operate a state-of-the-art canning factory in Matosinhos shaped like a can of fish. Today, the company also cans anchovies, sardines, mackerel, cod and other species. Much of the fish is local, but it now has to import fish as well. It exports the canned fish the world over. Picture taken February 12, 2018. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

Women work at the Ramirez fish canning factory in Matosinhos, Portugal February 12, 2018. Portugal’s Ramirez canning company touts itself as the oldest cannery in the world. The company was born in 1853 and a little more than a decade later started canning tuna, which were then abundant along the Portuguese coast. Today, five generations of Ramirezes later, they operate a state-of-the-art canning factory in Matosinhos shaped like a can of fish. Today, the company also cans anchovies, sardines, mackerel, cod and other species. Much of the fish is local, but it now has to import fish as well. It exports the canned fish the world over. Picture taken February 12, 2018. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

Fish fillets are seen at the Ramirez fish canning factory in Matosinhos, Portugal February 12, 2018. Portugal’s Ramirez canning company touts itself as the oldest cannery in the world. The company was born in 1853 and a little more than a decade later started canning tuna, which were then abundant along the Portuguese coast. Today, five generations of Ramirezes later, they operate a state-of-the-art canning factory in Matosinhos shaped like a can of fish. Today, the company also cans anchovies, sardines, mackerel, cod and other species. Much of the fish is local, but it now has to import fish as well. It exports the canned fish the world over. Picture taken February 12, 2018. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

Women work at the Ramirez fish canning factory in Matosinhos, Portugal February 12, 2018. Portugal’s Ramirez canning company touts itself as the oldest cannery in the world. The company was born in 1853 and a little more than a decade later started canning tuna, which were then abundant along the Portuguese coast. Today, five generations of Ramirezes later, they operate a state-of-the-art canning factory in Matosinhos shaped like a can of fish. Today, the company also cans anchovies, sardines, mackerel, cod and other species. Much of the fish is local, but it now has to import fish as well. It exports the canned fish the world over. Picture taken February 12, 2018. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

Women work at the Ramirez fish canning factory in Matosinhos, Portugal February 12, 2018. Portugal’s Ramirez canning company touts itself as the oldest cannery in the world. The company was born in 1853 and a little more than a decade later started canning tuna, which were then abundant along the Portuguese coast. Today, five generations of Ramirezes later, they operate a state-of-the-art canning factory in Matosinhos shaped like a can of fish. Today, the company also cans anchovies, sardines, mackerel, cod and other species. Much of the fish is local, but it now has to import fish as well. It exports the canned fish the world over. Picture taken February 12, 2018. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

Women work at the Ramirez fish canning factory in Matosinhos, Portugal February 12, 2018. Portugal’s Ramirez canning company touts itself as the oldest cannery in the world. The company was born in 1853 and a little more than a decade later started canning tuna, which were then abundant along the Portuguese coast. Today, five generations of Ramirezes later, they operate a state-of-the-art canning factory in Matosinhos shaped like a can of fish. Today, the company also cans anchovies, sardines, mackerel, cod and other species. Much of the fish is local, but it now has to import fish as well. It exports the canned fish the world over. Picture taken February 12, 2018. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes 

A man pushes mackerels with his feet at a fish market in Mumbai, India, October 29, 2018. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas 

Takako Arai's earliest memories are of Tsukiji, playing hide-and-seek with her brother in the concrete maze of Tokyo's sprawling fish market. Years later, she now runs the family's seafood stall that sells mackerel and yellowfin tuna. Arai and hundreds of other fish traders are reluctantly packing up and preparing to leave Tsukiji this week for a gleaming new $5 billion market on reclaimed land farther from central Tokyo. "I feel torn. I grew up here and I feel like we're losing so much of our history by leaving this place," said Arai, 45. The 83-year-old market, a popular tourist attraction, is a warren of shops and warehouses where small turret trucks zip around laden with ice-filled boxes of fish. But city officials say it has become dilapidated and unsanitary. REUTERS/Issei Kato SEARCH "TSUKIJI CLOSES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. Matching text: JAPAN-FISHMARKET/ 

Mackerels get barbecued as fish on a stick and well known as 'Steckerlfisch' in a restaurant in Grainau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany August 16, 2016. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle 

Chef Esben Holmboe Bang poses in the kitchen of his restaurant Maaemo in Oslo, September 9, 2014. In an unfashionable part of Oslo, head chef Bang?s minimalist creations are stirring up food culture in a country where, a generation ago, the height of fine dining was boiled cod and potatoes. Bang uses exclusively local ingredients to rustle up the likes of langoustines with spruce, mackerel with wild garlic and butter ice cream with brown butter caramel. Picture taken September 9, 2014. To match FOOD-CHEFS/BANG. REUTERS/Gwladys Fouche (NORWAY - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY) 

Chef Esben Holmboe Bang (2nd R) works in the kitchen of his restaurant Maaemo in Oslo, September 9, 2014. In an unfashionable part of Oslo, head chef Bang?s minimalist creations are stirring up food culture in a country where, a generation ago, the height of fine dining was boiled cod and potatoes. Bang uses exclusively local ingredients to rustle up the likes of langoustines with spruce, mackerel with wild garlic and butter ice cream with brown butter caramel. Picture taken September 9, 2014. To match FOOD-CHEFS/BANG. REUTERS/Gwladys Fouche (NORWAY - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY) 

Chef Esben Holmboe Bang works in the kitchen of his restaurant Maaemo in Oslo, September 9, 2014. In an unfashionable part of Oslo, head chef Bang?s minimalist creations are stirring up food culture in a country where, a generation ago, the height of fine dining was boiled cod and potatoes. Bang uses exclusively local ingredients to rustle up the likes of langoustines with spruce, mackerel with wild garlic and butter ice cream with brown butter caramel. Picture taken September 9, 2014. To match FOOD-CHEFS/BANG. REUTERS/Gwladys Fouche (NORWAY - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY) 

Chef Esben Holmboe Bang (R) works in the kitchen of his restaurant Maaemo in Oslo, September 9, 2014. In an unfashionable part of Oslo, head chef Bang?s minimalist creations are stirring up food culture in a country where, a generation ago, the height of fine dining was boiled cod and potatoes. Bang uses exclusively local ingredients to rustle up the likes of langoustines with spruce, mackerel with wild garlic and butter ice cream with brown butter caramel. Picture taken September 9, 2014. To match FOOD-CHEFS/BANG. REUTERS/Gwladys Fouche (NORWAY - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY) 

Fishermen from the northern Spanish regions of Asturias and Galicia shout slogans and wave a flare during a demonstration against mackerel fishing quota apportionment in Oviedo, northern Spain, March 14, 2014. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

Fishermen from the northern Spanish regions of Asturias and Galicia take part in a demonstration against mackerel fishing quota apportionment in Oviedo, northern Spain, March 14, 2014. Placard reads: "Asturias' quota, never going up, always going down". REUTERS/Eloy Alonso (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

Fishermen from the northern Spanish regions of Asturias and Galicia take part in a demonstration against mackerel fishing quota apportionment in Oviedo, northern Spain, March 14, 2014. Placard reads: "Canete (Spain's Agriculture and Fisheries Minister) terrorist. See you in the elections". REUTERS/Eloy Alonso (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

Fishermen from the northern Spanish regions of Asturias and Galicia take part in a demonstration against mackerel fishing quota apportionment in Oviedo, northern Spain, March 14, 2014. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

Fishermen from the northern Spanish regions of Asturias and Galicia take part in a demonstration against mackerel fishing quota apportionment in Oviedo, northern Spain, March 14, 2014. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

Fishermen from the northern Spanish regions of Asturias and Galicia take part in a demonstration against mackerel fishing quota apportionment in Oviedo, northern Spain, March 14, 2014. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

Fishes on sale are on display at a fish market in Istanbul February 2, 2014. “Balik ekmek! Balik ekmek!” (Fish bread! Fish bread!) yell the vendors tucked under Istanbul’s Galata Bridge, dishing out fish sandwiches to hordes of hungry locals and tourists much as they have for decades. But frozen mackerel from Norway or imports from Morocco are more likely to fill the onion, lettuce and pickle stuffed buns than a fresh catch from the Bosphorus or Marmara Sea. Picture taken February 2, 2014. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS AGRICULTURE TRAVEL) 

Men fish near Galata Bridge in Istanbul February 2, 2014. “Balik ekmek! Balik ekmek!” (Fish bread! Fish bread!) yell the vendors tucked under Istanbul’s Galata Bridge, dishing out fish sandwiches to hordes of hungry locals and tourists much as they have for decades. But frozen mackerel from Norway or imports from Morocco are more likely to fill the onion, lettuce and pickle stuffed buns than a fresh catch from the Bosphorus or Marmara Sea. Picture taken February 2, 2014. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: AGRICULTURE TRAVEL BUSINESS SOCIETY) 

Fishes are on display for sale in a fish market in Istanbul February 2, 2014. “Balik ekmek! Balik ekmek!” (Fish bread! Fish bread!) yell the vendors tucked under Istanbul’s Galata Bridge, dishing out fish sandwiches to hordes of hungry locals and tourists much as they have for decades. But frozen mackerel from Norway or imports from Morocco are more likely to fill the onion, lettuce and pickle stuffed buns than a fresh catch from the Bosphorus or Marmara Sea. Picture taken February 2, 2014. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: TRAVEL BUSINESS AGRICULTURE SOCIETY) 

Men fish on Galata Bridge in Istanbul February 2, 2014. “Balik ekmek! Balik ekmek!” (Fish bread! Fish bread!) yell the vendors tucked under Istanbul’s Galata Bridge, dishing out fish sandwiches to hordes of hungry locals and tourists much as they have for decades. But frozen mackerel from Norway or imports from Morocco are more likely to fill the onion, lettuce and pickle stuffed buns than a fresh catch from the Bosphorus or Marmara Sea. Picture taken February 2, 2014. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: BUSINESS TRAVEL AGRICULTURE SOCIETY) 

Boats selling fish sandwiches are anchored by the Golden Horn in Istanbul February 2, 2014. “Balik ekmek! Balik ekmek!” (Fish bread! Fish bread!) yell the vendors tucked under Istanbul’s Galata Bridge, dishing out fish sandwiches to hordes of hungry locals and tourists much as they have for decades. But frozen mackerel from Norway or imports from Morocco are more likely to fill the onion, lettuce and pickle stuffed buns than a fresh catch from the Bosphorus or Marmara Sea. Picture taken February 2, 2014. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS TRAVEL SOCIETY) 

Boats selling fish sandwiches are anchored by the Golden Horn in Istanbul February 2, 2014. “Balik ekmek! Balik ekmek!” (Fish bread! Fish bread!) yell the vendors tucked under Istanbul’s Galata Bridge, dishing out fish sandwiches to hordes of hungry locals and tourists much as they have for decades. But frozen mackerel from Norway or imports from Morocco are more likely to fill the onion, lettuce and pickle stuffed buns than a fresh catch from the Bosphorus or Marmara Sea. Picture taken February 2, 2014. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: BUSINESS AGRICULTURE TRAVEL SOCIETY) 

Men fish on Galata Bridge in Istanbul February 2, 2014. “Balik ekmek! Balik ekmek!” (Fish bread! Fish bread!) yell the vendors tucked under Istanbul’s Galata Bridge, dishing out fish sandwiches to hordes of hungry locals and tourists much as they have for decades. But frozen mackerel from Norway or imports from Morocco are more likely to fill the onion, lettuce and pickle stuffed buns than a fresh catch from the Bosphorus or Marmara Sea. Picture taken February 2, 2014. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: SOCIETY TRAVEL BUSINESS AGRICULTURE) 

Fishes on sale are on display at a fish market in Istanbul February 2, 2014. “Balik ekmek! Balik ekmek!” (Fish bread! Fish bread!) yell the vendors tucked under Istanbul’s Galata Bridge, dishing out fish sandwiches to hordes of hungry locals and tourists much as they have for decades. But frozen mackerel from Norway or imports from Morocco are more likely to fill the onion, lettuce and pickle stuffed buns than a fresh catch from the Bosphorus or Marmara Sea. Picture taken February 2, 2014. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS AGRICULTURE TRAVEL) 

A fishing boat travels on the Golden Horn in Istanbul February 2, 2014. “Balik ekmek! Balik ekmek!” (Fish bread! Fish bread!) yell the vendors tucked under Istanbul’s Galata Bridge, dishing out fish sandwiches to hordes of hungry locals and tourists much as they have for decades. But frozen mackerel from Norway or imports from Morocco are more likely to fill the onion, lettuce and pickle stuffed buns than a fresh catch from the Bosphorus or Marmara Sea. Picture taken February 2, 2014. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS SOCIETY TRAVEL) 

Zookeeper Andreas Steffens cleans the aquarium's pane as a covey of gold mackerel (Gnathanodon speciosus) passes during an animal stocktaking at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg December 27, 2013.
REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen (GERMANY - Tags: ANIMALS)

Salted mackerels from Norway (R) and domestic mackerels are displayed for sale at a market in Seoul September 6, 2013. South Korea banned all fishery imports from a swath of Japan around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Friday, dealing another blow to Tokyo's credibility on the eve of the capital's bid to host the Olympics. Just hours after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe broke away early from a global summit in Russia to personally back Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Games, Seoul extended a ban on 50 imports from eight Japanese prefectures, including Fukushima, due to concerns about radiation contamination. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT) 

Salted mackerels from Norway (R) and other domestic fishery products are displayed for sale at a market in Seoul September 6, 2013. South Korea banned all fishery imports from a swath of Japan around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Friday, dealing another blow to Tokyo's credibility on the eve of the capital's bid to host the Olympics. Just hours after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe broke away early from a global summit in Russia to personally back Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Games, Seoul extended a ban on 50 imports from eight Japanese prefectures, including Fukushima, due to concerns about radiation contamination. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT) 

A fishmonger fillets a mackerel at a Tesco Extra supermarket in Watford, north of London August 8, 2013. Tesco, the world's number three retailer, is hoping the allure of casual dining, coffees and even yoga will help tempt Britons back to its ailing retail park stores as part of a 1 billion pound ($1.55 billion) push to revitalise business. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD) 

Customs commissioner Ruffy Biazon (L) shows reporters some of the smuggled frozen pigeons seized by customs officials in Manila October 18, 2012. Philippines' Bureau of Customs have foiled the smuggling of some 40 million pesos ($970,800) worth of Peking ducks and pigeons from China in two forty-footer refrigerated containers misdeclared by a local trader as frozen mackerel, according to the bureau's press statement. Customs commissioner Ruffy Biazon said on Thursday, he had ordered the seizure of the unwelcome shipments because of a long-standing ban on the import of fowl from countries with a long history of avian flu outbreaks, local media reported. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW BUSINESS ANIMALS FOOD) 

A port worker inspects some of the smuggled frozen pigeon seized by customs officials in Manila October 18, 2012. Philippines' Bureau of Customs have foiled the smuggling of some 40 million pesos ($970,800) worth of Peking ducks and pigeons from China in two forty-footer refrigerated containers misdeclared by a local trader as frozen mackerel, according to the bureau's press statement. Customs commissioner Ruffy Biazon said on Thursday, he had ordered the seizure of the unwelcome shipments because of a long-standing ban on the import of fowl from countries with a long history of avian flu outbreaks, local media reported. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW BUSINESS ANIMALS FOOD) 

Port workers show reporters some of the smuggled frozen Peking ducks seized by customs officials in Manila October 18, 2012. Philippines' Bureau of Customs have foiled the smuggling of some 40 million pesos ($970,800) worth of Peking ducks and pigeons from China in two forty-footer refrigerated containers misdeclared by a local trader as frozen mackerel, according to the bureau's press statement. Customs commissioner Ruffy Biazon said on Thursday, he had ordered the seizure of the unwelcome shipments because of a long-standing ban on the import of fowl from countries with a long history of avian flu outbreaks, local media reported. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW BUSINESS ANIMALS FOOD) 

A woman holds a great barracuda for sale on a road on the outskirts of Havana May 25, 2012. Some of the most common species of fish that can be caught while fishing in Cuba are tuna, mackerel, barracuda and swordfish. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS BUSINESS) 

A crew member sits on a fishing net as Sierra Leonean security forces guard the Marampa 803, a vessel apprehended for alleged illegal fishing activities, that has been moored off the West African country's capital Freetown January 21, 2012. West Africa, recognized as one of the world's richest fisheries grounds teeming with snapper, grouper, sardines, mackerel and shrimp, loses up to $1.5 billion worth of fish each year to vessels fishing in protected zones or without proper equipment or licenses. Widespread corruption and a continuing lack of resources for enforcement mean huge foreign trawlers often venture into areas near the coast that are reserved exclusively for artisanal fishermen, allowing them to drag off tonnes of catch and putting at risk the livelihoods of millions of local people. Picture taken January 21, 2012. To match Feature WESTAFRICA-FISHING/ REUTERS/Simon Akam (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FOOD ANIMALS) 

Sierra Leonean security forces guard the Marampa 803, a vessel apprehended for alleged illegal fishing activities, that has been moored off the West African country's capital Freetown January 21, 2012. West Africa, recognized as one of the world's richest fisheries grounds teeming with snapper, grouper, sardines, mackerel and shrimp, loses up to $1.5 billion worth of fish each year to vessels fishing in protected zones or without proper equipment or licenses. Widespread corruption and a continuing lack of resources for enforcement mean huge foreign trawlers often venture into areas near the coast that are reserved exclusively for artisanal fishermen, allowing them to drag off tonnes of catch and putting at risk the livelihoods of millions of local people. Picture taken January 21, 2012. To match Feature WESTAFRICA-FISHING/ REUTERS/Simon Akam (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FOOD ANIMALS) 

Sierra Leonean security forces guard a crew member on the galley of the Marampa 803, a vessel apprehended for alleged illegal fishing activities, that has been moored off the West African country's capital Freetown January 21, 2012. West Africa, recognized as one of the world's richest fisheries grounds teeming with snapper, grouper, sardines, mackerel and shrimp, loses up to $1.5 billion worth of fish each year to vessels fishing in protected zones or without proper equipment or licenses. Widespread corruption and a continuing lack of resources for enforcement mean huge foreign trawlers often venture into areas near the coast that are reserved exclusively for artisanal fishermen, allowing them to drag off tonnes of catch and putting at risk the livelihoods of millions of local people. Picture taken January 21, 2012. To match Feature WESTAFRICA-FISHING/ REUTERS/Simon Akam (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FOOD ANIMALS) 

Sierra Leonean security forces supervise the crew on board the Marampa 803, a vessel apprehended for alleged illegal fishing activities, that has been moored off the West African country's capital Freetown January 21, 2012. West Africa, recognized as one of the world's richest fisheries grounds teeming with snapper, grouper, sardines, mackerel and shrimp, loses up to $1.5 billion worth of fish each year to vessels fishing in protected zones or without proper equipment or licenses. Widespread corruption and a continuing lack of resources for enforcement mean huge foreign trawlers often venture into areas near the coast that are reserved exclusively for artisanal fishermen, allowing them to drag off tonnes of catch and putting at risk the livelihoods of millions of local people. Picture taken January 21, 2012. To match Feature WESTAFRICA-FISHING/ REUTERS/Simon Akam (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FOOD ANIMALS) 

A man dressed in a Santa Claus costume feeds a mackerel to a penguin during a news conference leading up to Christmas celebrations at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok December 23, 2008. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND) 

People dressed as Saint Nicholas, an angel and the devil arrive at an airport in Slavnica December 6, 2008 for the annual show "Saint Nicholas From Mackerel Sky". REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa (SLOVAKIA) 

Presenters dressed as Saint Nicholas, an angel and the devil give a present to a child during the annual show "Saint Nicholas From Mackerel Sky" at an airport in Slavnica December 6, 2008. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa (SLOVAKIA) 

A man dressed as the devil jumps off the stage during the annual show "Saint Nicholas From Mackerel Sky" at an airport in Slavnica December 6, 2008. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa (SLOVAKIA)