Activists hold a banner in Spanish reading: “Stop EU Subsidised Plunder” to protest against European overfishing in Mauritanian waters. The activists have attached symbolic Euro bank notes and a banner on the hull of the European PFA super trawler ‘Maartje Theadora’. The money represents the financial support from unknowing, European tax payer’s pockets to the destructive fishing practices of the European fleets. 90% of the cost for fishing rights to these huge trawlers that plunder West African waters is financed by EU tax money.