Abstract: | This article was prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization for the sixth session of the Economic Commission for Africa and discusses the African fisheries so as to bring out the pricipal obstacles to the fuller realization of Africa's fisherypotential, to show what is already being done to overcome them and to point to what still remains to be done: I. Fishery Production; II. Fissheries Development (A. Mediterranean Red Sea and east coast fisheries; B. West coast fisheries; C. North west); III, The Scope for Fishery Development (A. Increasing production; B. Marketing of fisheries products; C. Fisheries training and extension); IV Conclusions. Table. |