The Cameroon Shrimp Platform (Placrecam), established as an interprofessional body, thus takes over from the international FISH4ACP program to consolidate the competitiveness of a market whose annual landings now reach 8,000 tonnes, including 6,000 tonnes from marine artisanal fishing. The FAO's five-year action has helped clean up the sector's technical environment by improving scientific knowledge of the resource. Thanks to frame surveys and the deployment of a pilot onboard observer program, public authorities now have updated data to adjust catch quotas and regulate industrial fishing. 

In terms of hygiene and preservation, the project strengthened the analytical capacities of the National Veterinary Laboratory (Lanavet) in Douala, while equipping coastal communities with ice plants and energy-efficient smoking kilns. The digitalization of marketing marks a key breakthrough with the launch of the SIREN application. This traceability and commercial intermediation tool, tested with over a hundred fishers across fourteen landing sites, enables real-time connection of production to formal distribution channels, notably supermarkets, hotels, and regional exports.

The major challenge for Placrecam, chaired by Louis Martin Imoulanok, lies in financial structuring and the commercial valorization of seafood products. The interprofessional body plans to consolidate the organization of stakeholders into professional colleges (fishers, processors, wholesalers) and intensify the collection of operational data.

The goal is the creation of a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) under the heritage name "Rio dos Camarões", reserved for wild Penaeus monodon shrimp. The formalization of this quality label with the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), estimated at 150 million CFA francs, will constitute the first maturity test for the new interprofessional governance, aimed at guaranteeing access for Cameroonian products to high-value-added international markets.


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