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| All resources - Southern Areas of the Eastern Central Atlantic (FAO Statistical Area 34) |
 | Toutes ressources dans la zone sud de l'Atlantique Centre Est (Zone statistique FAO 34) 12°18'' -6°05 |
| | Data Ownership | | This document owned by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), provided and maintained by Marine and Inland Fisheries Branch (FIRF) , is part of FAO Global Marine Fishery Resource Reports data collection. |
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| 34.3.3 | Sherbro |
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| 34.3.4 | Western Gulf of Guinea |
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| 34.3.5 | Central Gulf of Guinea |
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| 34.3.6 | Southern Gulf of Guinea |
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| 34.3.13 | Atlantic, East central / 34.3.13 |
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| Aq Res | Biological Stock: No
Value: Regional
Reference year: 2004 |
| Considered a management unit: An aquatic resource or fishery is
declared as [Fishery] Management Unit if it is
effectively the focus for the application of selected
management methods and measures, within the broader
framework of a management system. According to the FAO
Glossary for Responsible Fishing, "a Fishery Management
Unit (FMU) is a fishery or a portion of a fishery
identified in a Fishery Management Plan (FMP) relevant
to the FMP's management objectives." FMU's may be
organised around fisheries biological, geographic,
economic, technical, social or ecological dimensions ,
and the makeup and attribute of a fishery management
unit depends mainly on the FMP's management
objectives. |
| Jurisdictional distribution: Jurisdictional qualifier (e.g.
"shared", "shared - highly migratory") of the aquatic
resource related with its spatial distribution. |
| Environmental group: Classification of the aquatic
resource according to the environmental group (e.g.
pelagic invertebrate, or demersal fish) to which the
species belong. |
| Reference Year: The Reference Year is the last year considered in the stock assessment and/or fishery status. |
| | | | | | Aq Res State Trend Cuttlefish stocks The exploitation rate applied to cuttlefish stocks
in Guinea has been increasing since the 1990s
and by 2001 with a catch of 5800t the stocks
were considered to be overexploited (FAO,
2003c). Southern pink shrimp in Guinea and Sierra Leone Current annual production of southern pink
shrimp in Guinea and Sierra Leone is around
2 000t. The species is considered moderatly
exploited in Sierra Leone whereas in Guinea the
species is considered overexploited (FAO,
2003c). Demersal species in the Gulf of Guinea Trawl surveys carried out on the Western Gulf of
Guinea continental shelf by the RV Dr. Fridtjof
Nansen have shown that between 1999 and 2001
the estimated biomass of demersal resources
varied somewhat in the period from 17 500t to
39 500t. In the Gulf of Guinea, from Ivory Coast
to Cameroon the potential of shrimps were
estimated at 10 000t, and stocks were considered
highly exploited (FAO, 1999).
Demersal resources were found to be either fully
or overexploited (FAO, 2004a, b). Due to inconsistencies in the input data, the CECAF
Demersal Working Group recommended that a
precautionary approach, avoiding any increase in
fishing effort, should be adopted for all the
demersal species in the Gulf of Guinea (FAO,
2003c, 2004 a, b). Small pelagic species, west and central Gulf of Guinea Small pelagic species (sardinellas, mackerels and
anchovies) are important but unstable resources
in the Western Gulf of Guinea shared by Côte
d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin which further
complicates the management of the fisheries
exploiting them. Potentials of small pelagic in the
west and central Gulf of Guinea have been
estimated at 330 000t and seem to be fully
exploited. Many countries have not developed
appropriate database and research structures to
evaluate the state of the stocks and their
explotation. Habitat Bio Bottom Type: Unspecified. Depth Zone: Unspecified. Horizontal Dist: Unspecified. Vertical Dist: Unspecified. Geo Dist Geo Dist: Unspecified Water Area Overview  | | Water Area Overview All resources - Southern Areas of the Eastern Central Atlantic (FAO Statistical Area 34)
| fao Div | 34.3.3: Sherbro | | 34.3.4: Western Gulf of Guinea | | 34.3.5: Central Gulf of Guinea | | 34.3.6: Southern Gulf of Guinea | | fao Sub Div | 34.3.13: Atlantic, East central / 34.3.13 |
| | | | | | Water Area Overview
| Exclusive Economic Zone Areas (EEZ) | GNB: Guinea-Bissau | | CIV: Côte d'Ivoire | | GHA: Ghana | | TGO: Togo | | BEN: Benin | | NGA: Nigeria | | CMR: Cameroon | | GAB: Gabon | | COD: Congo, Dem. Rep. of the | | AGO: Angola |
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Water Area OverviewAll resources - Southern Areas of the Eastern Central Atlantic (FAO Statistical Area 34) Aq Res Struct Biological Stock: No The continental shelves of Guinea-Bissau,
Guinea and Sierra Leone are characterized by
coastal fish assemblages of croakers principally located in the nutrient-rich estuarine and inshore
areas. Exploit Marine resources of the Gulf of Guinea are
mainly exploited by Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo,
Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon and Equatorial
Guinea, among others. Multi-species fisheries are
common in the Gulf of Guinea. Small pelagic
resources are exploited mainly by artisanal and
semi-industrial purse-seine in Côte d'Ivoire,
Ghana, Togo and Benin and exclusively by
small-scale fisheries in Nigeria and Cameroon.
Coastal demersal resources are composed of
sciaenids (exploited by small-scale and semiindustrial
fisheries in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and
Cameroon), groupers and snappers (fished in
Togo and Ghana with hook-and-lines in
untrawlable areas), and sparids (Côte d'Ivoire and
Ghana). The white shrimp resources off Nigeria
and Cameroon are fished exclusively by artisanal
fisheries while pink shrimp is exploited by
trawlers of the semi-industrial fishery. Penaeid
shrimps in Togo and Benin and in Côte d'Ivoire
are caught in lagoon fisheries. The offshore
demersal resources of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
are made up of sparids along with the slope
community, while the offshore demersal
resources of Nigeria and Cameroon are primarily
drift fish ( Arioma spp.) and redfishes
(Scorpaenidae). Sources FAO Marine Resources Service, Fishery Resources Division. “Review of the state of world marine fishery resources” FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 457. Rome, FAO. 2005. 235p.
 http://www.fao.org/tempref/docrep/fao/007/y5852e/Y5852E04.pdf Bibliography The bibliographic references are available through the hyperlink displayed in "Source of Information". “Rapport du Troisieme Groupe de travail CNROP Nouadhibou, Mauritanie, 20-26 novembre 1993.” FAO 1995 CECAF/ECAF SERIES 95/60 FAO. |
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