On 6 October 2022, the Minister for Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries was granted an audience with the Under-Secretary General of this institution.

Cameroon must have quality infrastructures for quality fishing products. This is the summary of the audience granted by the Minister of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Dr Taïga, on 6 October 2022 to ESCIPION Oliveira Gomez, Under-Secretary General of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OECP), in charge of the Economic, Structural Transformation and Trade Department.

Through a number of donors, the organisation is supporting Cameroon in the fisheries sector with a view to producing fish and seafood, in particular shrimp.

The FISH4 ACP programme is one of the fruits of this FAO-led support. The aim of this project, whose mission is to develop the potential of fisheries and aquaculture, is to increase the competitiveness and environmental sustainability of the shrimp sector as its main product. The aim of the OEACP is therefore to ensure that Cameroon has the infrastructure, such as analysis laboratories, to enable this product to enter the European Union market, for example.

Cameroon has a lot to offer when it comes to shrimp. The country is located on the Atlantic coast and has many rivers. It was in 1472 that Portuguese explorers named it “RIO DOS CAMAROES”, for the abundance of crustaceans discovered in the region. As a seafood product, it is the main export, and its potential needs to be exploited.

Perin Melchior Nzie