"On December 15, 2007 incense fills the basement of an abandoned building in Barcelona, Spain where Amadou lives with 12 other sub-Saharan illegal immigrants and four Spanish drug addicts. In his native Mauritania his family were fisherman. He says he came because he had no choice. �Where I come from, there are no more fish. I came here to work, but if you don�t have papers, there is no work.� Experts say that one of the other contributing factors that push young people to immigrate to Europe from West Africa is the depletion of local fish stocks. Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal have all signed agreements with the European Union, Russia and other countries, allowing them the right to fish in their waters. Experts say that this type of mismanagement has destroyed fish stocks and resulted in the loss of a vital local economy. " ©Charlie Mahoney

On December 15, 2007 incense fills the basement of an abandoned building in Barcelona, Spain where Amadou lives with 12 other sub-Saharan illegal immigrants and four Spanish drug addicts. In his native Mauritania his family were fisherman. He says he came because he had no choice. �Where I come from, there are no more fish. I came here to work, but if you don�t have papers, there is no work.� Experts say that one of the other contributing factors that push young people to immigrate to Europe from West Africa is the depletion of local fish stocks. Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal have all signed agreements with the European Union, Russia and other countries, allowing them the right to fish in their waters. Experts say that this type of mismanagement has destroyed fish stocks and resulted in the loss of a vital local economy.