Aquaculture was introduced in Cameroon by the Eighties through mainly barrage ponds grown with Tilapia, Heterotis niloticus, Catfish, and common carp. The government, to encourage the activity, built 33 fish farms stations (43,75 ha) in six provinces. Aquaculture fish production is estimated at 55 m tons, FAO, 1996 (1). This...
Cameroon is a country of Central Africa, with 402 km coastline where occur intense industrial and small scale marine, multispecies/gears fishing activities. Fishing accounts for 5.2% of GDP in the primary sector and 1.7% of GDP. The Ministry of Livestock’s, Fisheries and Animal Industries is responsible of the fisheries policy...