African fisheries: major trends and diagnostic of the 20th century
Njifonfjou, O.; Njock, J. C. (2000). African fisheries: major trends and diagnostic of the 20th century. Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Conference of the IIFET Presentations: [s.l.]. 10 pp.
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Africa, fisheries, major trends, production, exports, aquaculture |
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- Njifonfjou, O.
- Njock, J. C.
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| Abstract |
The marine fisheries production from African coastal countries, combined with that of freshwater production of the continent is estimated to be 6 million metric tons, corresponding only 5 % of the total world production. Africa's contribution to fisheries products (1,5 %) is insignificant compared to that of world commerce which is around 44 million tons. This deplorable situation is due to a certain number of problems which includes among others, the relative biogenic poverty of African waters, the exploitation of African waters by foreign vessels, the total lack of catches effected by the African vessels out of their regional boundaries, the lack of knowledge on the mastering of commercialization and on veritable commercial politics of fisheries products, including quality assurance. In addition to this, the almost inexistence of the aquaculture in the sub-Saharan countries. This paper analyses the African fisheries in the whole continent and presents the general characters, notably its evolution, fisheries resources, valorization and consumption of fisheries products. The global analysis made here accords a priority to markets as well as to the framework of contribution of these products and tries, at the end of the 20th century, to present some trends. Facing the globalization phenomena, how will African fisheries producers be challenged in the new millennium? This continental level analysis brings out field application and some different development perspectives for both small scale and industrial fisheries sub-sectors. |
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