The Socio-Economics of the West, Central and Southern African Coastal Communities

Appendix B Annual Economic Value of Sustainable Fish Landings to the GCLME countries (2003)

Total Sust. L.V.: Sust. L.V. –10% for fish nurseries (US$ millions)

Sustainable Landings: 80%Landings metric tons

Sustainable L.V. S.L.*$12,100 (US$ millions)

Landed Value (L.V.) L*$12,100 (US$ millions)

Landings in metric tons

Country

1862.6

2069.6

171,039

213,799

Angola

2,586.9

104.5

116.1

9,597

11,997

Benin

145.12

490.8

545.4

45,071

56,339

Cameroon

681.7

192.0

213.4

17,635

22,044.2

Republic of the Congo

266.7

491.4

546.0

45,120

56,400

Côte d’Ivoire

682.4

39.8

44.2

3,655

4,569

Democratic Republic of the Congo

55.3

21.8

24.2

2,000

2,500

Equatorial Guinea

30.3

280.0

311.1

25,708

32,135.8

Gabon

388.8

3023.5

3359.4

277,638

347,048.2

Ghana

4,199.3

823.0

914.4

75,572

94,465.6

Guinea

1,143

33.7

37.4

3,093

3,867

Guinea-Bissau

70.8

68.0

75.6

6,244

7,806.6

Liberia

94.5

2356.4

2618.2

216,380

27,0476.6

Nigeria

3,272.8

29.6

32.9

2,722

3,403

Sao Tome and Principe

41.2

419.9

466.6

38,560

48,200

Sierra Leone

583.2

155.4

172.7

14,274

17,843.2

Togo

215.90

10392.4

11547.1

954,308

1,221,934.4

Total

14,458

3193.6

3548.5

293,264

366,580

IUU # (30% total)*

4,337.4

13586.1

15095.6

1,247,572

1,588,514.4

Total+IUU

18,795.4

53.7 US$/ha

59.7 US$/ha

GCLME area: 252,797,700 ha

74.3 US$/ha

* Interwies (2011) uses 30% as the IUU percentage; Chukwuone et al. (2009) uses 23%. Sources: Interwies (2011), p. 99 and Chukwuone et al. (2009),, p. 194.

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