The industial fishery consists of a variety of types of vessels and fishing gears, operated by both national and foreign fishers. There are demersal trawlers, tuna seiners, bait boats and longliners and pelagic purse seiners.
Seiners
Pole and Line vessels
Longliners

The data in this fact sheet have been sourced mainly from the BNP case study in Senegal in 2008. The case study was carried out as a desk study, compiling and analysing existing secondary information from different sources including official statistics, censuses, research data and project reports. The data used referred to different years (e.g. inland fisheries data mainly from 1999-2000; number of fishers in the marine sector from 2005) but the preliminary study results were discussed and validated with key informants and local experts and were considered valid estimates for base year of the study, i.e. 2006 (see more explanations with regard to methods and sources in the BNP case study report: Démé, M. 2008. Revue sectorielle des statistiques de pêche et des systèmes de collecte de l’information au Sénégal. BNP working document, and in Table 1 of Senegal Fishery sector fact sheet). It should be noted that figures may differ from officially reported data..

Complementary information has also been derived from:

• FAO Fishery Country Profile Senegal;
• FAO FishStat Plus.

The assessment presented in this fact sheet is part of a more comprehensive national assessment undertaken under the BigNumbers project. Please refer to the other observation units [or fisheries] assessed: Senegal Fisheries sector, Senegal Artisanal fisheries sub-sector.