Fishing provides a vital contribution to food and nutrition security to 200 million people in Africa.

The same area provides income for over 10 million people, engaged in the production, processing and sales.

According to the FAO, the total value of fisheries and aquaculture in Africa in 2014 was estimated at $ 24 billion (about FCFA 12 000 billion), representing 1.26% of the GDP of Africa.

These data and others have led to the launch of the Fish Trade project in the Central African corridor on November 9 and 10 in Douala.

There have been talks on the means to increase, to optimize its income from fishing, this in line with a recommendation of the African Union summit in June 2014 in Malabo.

Note that Fish Trade, a joint program of the International Bureau for Animal Resources of the AU, NEPAD, and the World Fish Center, aims to improve food security and poverty reduction by means of fishing.

According to information obtained by Cameroon-Tribune, the program should, among other things, generate information on the structure, products and the value of intra-regional fish trade in food security.

Also, in the Central Africa corridor, the University of Douala, through its Institute of Fisheries Science, has been selected for this. Thus, six Master students II (fisheries scientist design engineer) are responsible for the collection of data on any sites on nine major lakes in Cameroon.

This project will be for the chain analysis of fishery products and examination of the values of the constraints that undermine the full flow of trade in fisheries products in the subregion.