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Ivory Coast
Index
In 1987 combined fish production in Côte d'Ivoire was
estimated
to be worth CFA F15 billion, and its share in net
agricultural
value added was 1.6 percent. Contributing about equally to
the
total were the tuna industry; low technology coastal and
freshwater
fishing, including a large smoked fish industry; and a
fleet of
privately owned trawling, sardine seining, and shrimping
vessels.
In the 1980s, canned fish was the country's seventh
largest export
commodity in revenue generated (behind cocoa, coffee,
fuels and
chemicals, timber, cotton, and palm oil), amounting to
about 20,000
tons a year (see
table 5, Appendix). Nevertheless, export
revenues
from fish exports only slightly exceeded foreign exchange
payouts
for the approximately 100,000 tons of frozen fish imported
each
year. The imports supplemented the canoe and fleet
catches, which
met about half of domestic demand.
Insofar as Ivoirian coastal waters had probably reached
their
maximum sustained yield in 1988, possibilities for growth
in the
fishing sector were limited without costly research and
development, which the country could ill afford. The areas
offering
the greatest potential for growth were the tuna industry
and
domestic freshwater production in artificial lakes and
ponds. After
completion of the Kossou Dam on the Bandama River,
freshwater
catches increased
(see Electricity
, this ch.). Malian
fishermen
from the Niger River region moved into the area, set up
fishing
villages, and earned a comfortable livelihood from the
carefully
stocked lake.
Data as of November 1988
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