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fleets target high value fish in locations where governance and enforcement are limited such as in the
waters of Eastern Africa (World Bank, 2017) (Stimson, 2019).

Inland fisheries and aquaculture contribute to about 30,000 and 10,000 MT per year respectively.
Majority of the capture is exported especially cephalopods and crustacean’s species (Breuil & Grima,
2014). Country Profile

Table 1: Annual f?sh production (tonnes), 1950-2017 The Republic of Madagascar

Year 1950 2008 2017
Production 13,800 107,000 137,000

Source: (World Bank, 2017)

Although recent studies indicate the total fishery potential is about 200,000 MT per year (with tuna
and tuna-like species making up 52,000 MT of that). It is important to study the true potential of the
Malagasy waters to prevent issues of over-fishing.

The constraints
Food security
Madagascar is a low-income earning country with an alarming hunger problem. Access to proper
nutrition and food to the over 70 per cent of the population that lives in poverty is a challenge
and this is compounded by the ever-growing population as seen in figure …. There are regional
differences in food security. For example, between 2016 and 2017, about 60 per cent of households
in Grand Sud were seriously food insecure. Food security is partly driven by drought and poverty.
Madagascar has the world’s fourth highest rate of chronic malnutrition, with almost one child in
every two under five years of age suffering from stunting (table …) (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and
WHO, 2018).

Table 2: Food insecurity trends in Madagascar

Location Prevalence of Prevalence of Prevalence Prevalence of
undernourishment in the severe food of stunting in overweight in
total population (%) insecurity in the children under adults over 18
total population 5 (2012) years of age (%)
(2015-2017)
2004-2006 2015-2017 % % 2012 2017
Madagascar 35.0 41.3 - 49.2 3.6 4.5

Eastern Africa 34.4 31.2 29.2 38.5 4.3 5.2
Africa 21.3 19.6 25.9 7.1 5.0 5.0

Source: (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO, 2018)

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