West Africa needs to develop a coherent regional policy to manage its dwindling fishery resources with a view to ensuring a sustainable balance of its strategic role in the economies of Member States, a senior official at the Republic of Benin Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, has said.
“Such a policy must effectively reconcile the various roles of the sector, a critical source of revenue, food security and a diminishing resource which had generated some tensions related to the issues of access and market, a reflection of the absence of dialogue,” said Mr. Idrissou Yacouba Toure, Director of Cabinet in the ministry.
Fishery accounts for between three and five percent of the GDP of five ECOWAS Member States of Benin, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali and Senegal with about five million people involved in the sector mainly in harvesting, processing and trading in fish and related products as well as ancillary activities such as building canoes and sale of fishing gear.
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