Babou Diouf, 46, a fisherman from Senegal, looks at the Cantabrian Sea while he works on the Sarridal ship, near Burela, Galicia, Spain, December 12, 2023. Diouf was part of a migration surge in 2006 from West Africa through Spain's Canary Islands, with more than 30,000 migrants fleeing poverty exacerbated by a dramatic plunge in coastal fish stocks. This record was broken in 2023 when nearly 7,000 people died. "To see rafts arriving in Spain is very difficult," Diouf said. "To cross the ocean without knowing what you're facing - you're facing death." REUTERS/Nacho Doce