Currently, what are the prospects for the marketing of west African fish products?
I can tell you, west African seafood products are well represented on international markets like Europe nowadays, including demersal species. But we also note a progressive shift towards west African regional markets, particularly Mali, Burkina Faso, Congo, etc. We need to keep in mind that the livelihoods of the region’s 400,000 fishermen, as well as those of the entire sector, depend on such regional fish markets. Currently, regional fish markets absorb approximately half of the exports from a country like Senegal, where catches are primarily composed of small pelagic, which comprise 80% of Senegalese artisanal fishermen’s catches. Q: What about the competition from other sources of fish supplies in these two types of market? A: I think rather that there can be, and there must be complementarity. Until now, our approach, at the WATH, is to help the sector’s stakeholders to satisfy the demands from both types of markets, regional and international, by helping them to comply with inter
