Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Egyptian and Yemeni fishermen continue pillaging Afar waters, The Italians colonial really messed up Eritrea, they lumped incompatible ethnic groups into one single country and left in a hurry, prior to colonization of Eritrea, Tigrinya were traditionally goat herders who never ventured far from their traditional mud hut villages in & around Asmara and never crossed paths with free as a bird Afar pastoralists nomadic and seafarers.
According to Yemenis seafood association, The largest traditional fishing communities are concentrated in the western Plain of Tehama, where nearly 78,000 fishermen work in fish landing centers along the coastline from Midi to Al Khokha.