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3. STATUS ON AND TRENDS IN THE USE OF FISHERIES RESOURCES AS INPUTS
   IN THE ANIMAL FEED INDUSTRY IN AFRICA AND THE NEAR EAST
   3.1 Landings of fish destined for reduction and other uses
   Currently, almost 82 percent of global fishmeal production and 55 percent of global
   fish oil production is not reported at the species level (Tacon, 2004), and there is a more
   acute lack of information for Africa and the Near East. This makes it almost impossible
   to determine any spatial or seasonal patterns of availability.
   A five-year summary of small pelagic catches for Africa and the Near East is shown
   in Table 1. Unfortunately the data cannot be disaggregated for reduction, human
   consumption and other uses.

Unlike Peru, Chile and Iceland, among other countries, that have dedicated reduction
fisheries (Tacon, Hasan and Subasinghe, 2006), most of the small pelagic fisheries in
Africa and the Near East target fish for human consumption. South Africa is the only
exception in that it has a dedicated reduction fishery (S. Malherbe, Chairperson, South

FIGURE 5

Two growth scenarios of aquaculture production

in sub-Saharan Africa to 2013

Source: Hecht (2006)

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TABLE 1

Small pelagic landings (tonnes) for Africa and the Near East, 2000–2004*

Country 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 5-year average

Morocco Africa 562 684 812 551 707 874 677 635 653 474 682 844

South Africa Africa 441 650 534 680 528 950 591 399 611 159 541 568

Senegal Africa 250 715 244 754 210 692 281 723 276 340 252 845

Ghana Africa 223 624 166 173 139 668 183 069 166 674 175 842

Nigeria Africa 108 620 92 907 93 519 100 676 97 070 98 558

Algeria Africa 76 405 99 873 100 750 100 372 99 600 95 400

Other** Africa 450 075 397 836 408 229 404 570 453 815 422 905

Other*** Near East 81 595 97 624 76 739 71 127 81 396 81 696

Total 2 195 368 2 446 398 2 266 421 2 410 571 2 439 528 2 351 658

*Countries with an annual mean catch of less than 50 000 tonnes were grouped.

**Other African countries (23 countries).

***Other Near Eastern countries (9 countries).

Source: FAO (2006b)