Chapter 6 - Fishing and fishing communities: what future when faced with the challenges of inclusive and sustainable development in Algeria?

The current situation of countries on both Mediterranean shores and their neighbourhood, even distant ones, and the challenges they face cannot be addressed without considering the social and economic consequences of the explosion of migratory flows over the past five years. The Mediterranean has become the most important transit area for migrants and unfortunately also the most deadly. This vertiginous acceleration of migratory flows reached its peak when nearly a million migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 particularly fleeing the wars in the Middle East and Africa. For almost twenty-five years (1993-2017), an estimated 34,500 migrants of all ages have died while crossing the Mediterranean Sea, of which, 15,000 since 2014 alone.