Fish production from dugouts and reserves

in the Waza-Logone floodplain: comparison with other types of fishing

The document submitted for publication concerns the study of the production of some artificial ponds and reserves scattered in the wetland of Waza-Logone.

This region of Cameroon is indeed a zone where an intense fishing activity is practiced.

Data concerning fishing in water bodies such as dugouts and reserves were absent from any documentation.

We therefore had to characterize these fishing sites and evaluate the quality and quantity of the products obtained from fishing in these places.

Thus, with the measured morphometric parameters, the topographic profiles of the various sites were brought out.

Also, an identification at the level of the Family, of the fished products was made.

The quantities of the products caught were compared first of all with the quantities caught in the other fishing sites such as the fishing canals or with those obtained from free fishing on the Logone and its tributaries; also these same quantities obtained from the ponds and reserves were compared with the theoretical values obtained with simulations