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| Fact Sheet Title Fact Sheet |
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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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| ident Block All resources - Southern Areas of the Eastern Central Atlantic (FAO Statistical Area 34) Aq Res Ident Aq Res Ident Aq Res Ident | fao Div |
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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: Biological Stock 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. |
| | | | | | Aq Res State Trend Cuttlefish stocks The exploitation rate applied to cuttlefish stocksin Guinea has been increasing since the 1990sand by 2001 with a catch of 5800t the stockswere considered to be overexploited (FAO,2003c). Southern pink shrimp in Guinea and Sierra Leone Current annual production of southern pinkshrimp in Guinea and Sierra Leone is around2 000t. The species is considered moderatlyexploited in Sierra Leone whereas in Guinea thespecies is considered overexploited (FAO,2003c). Demersal species in the Gulf of Guinea Trawl surveys carried out on the Western Gulf ofGuinea continental shelf by the RV Dr. FridtjofNansen have shown that between 1999 and 2001the estimated biomass of demersal resourcesvaried somewhat in the period from 17 500t to39 500t. In the Gulf of Guinea, from Ivory Coastto Cameroon the potential of shrimps wereestimated at 10 000t, and stocks were consideredhighly exploited (FAO, 1999).Demersal resources were found to be either fullyor overexploited (FAO, 2004a, b). Due to inconsistencies in the input data, the CECAFDemersal Working Group recommended that aprecautionary approach, avoiding any increase infishing effort, should be adopted for all thedemersal 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 andanchovies) are important but unstable resourcesin the Western Gulf of Guinea shared by Côted'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin which furthercomplicates the management of the fisheriesexploiting them. Potentials of small pelagic in thewest and central Gulf of Guinea have beenestimated at 330 000t and seem to be fullyexploited. Many countries have not developedappropriate database and research structures toevaluate the state of the stocks and theirexplotation. Habitat Bio Bottom Type: Unspecified. Depth Zone: Unspecified. Horizontal Dist: Unspecified. Vertical Dist: Unspecified. Geo Dist Geo Dist: Unspecified Water Area Overview Spatial Scale: Spatial Scale 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 |
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| 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: Biological Stock The continental shelves of Guinea-Bissau,Guinea and Sierra Leone are characterized bycoastal fish assemblages of croakers principally located in the nutrient-rich estuarine and inshoreareas. Exploit Marine resources of the Gulf of Guinea aremainly exploited by Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo,Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon and EquatorialGuinea, among others. Multi-species fisheries arecommon in the Gulf of Guinea. Small pelagicresources are exploited mainly by artisanal andsemi-industrial purse-seine in Côte d'Ivoire,Ghana, Togo and Benin and exclusively bysmall-scale fisheries in Nigeria and Cameroon.Coastal demersal resources are composed ofsciaenids (exploited by small-scale and semiindustrialfisheries in Nigeria, Benin, Togo andCameroon), groupers and snappers (fished inTogo and Ghana with hook-and-lines inuntrawlable areas), and sparids (Côte d'Ivoire andGhana). The white shrimp resources off Nigeriaand Cameroon are fished exclusively by artisanalfisheries while pink shrimp is exploited bytrawlers of the semi-industrial fishery. Penaeidshrimps in Togo and Benin and in Côte d'Ivoireare caught in lagoon fisheries. The offshoredemersal resources of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoireare made up of sparids along with the slopecommunity, while the offshore demersalresources of Nigeria and Cameroon are primarilydrift 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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