Animal protein sources for rural and urban populations in Ghana
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The purpose of this paper is mainly to present a systematic analysis of the background, the establishment and the development of the so-called Popo fisheries around the town of Pointe-Noire in Congo. The 'Popo' in Pointe-Noire is an easily identifiable group of fishermen originally from Benin who live and work in two village clusters on the beach only some kilometres from the town centre. Both in relation to Popo fishery in Benin as well to local canoe fishery in Congo, their production is chara cterized by a high level of specialization and market oriented production based on capital intensive technology and in this respect they are a typical case and part of what is now generally known as the West African migrant canoe fisheries which to a large extent dominate the coastal fisheries from Mauritania to Congo . Although a relatively large amount of literature explicitly deals with the West African fishermen in Congo, mainly due to the existence of a long term ORSTOM fisheries resea rch programme in Pointe-Noire, few works have systematically dealt with its historical development . Most of them describe and analyze production (and to a minor extent the community) at a specific period of time. Such studies may provide interesting knowledge, but in order to grasp the more fundamental factors behind the dynamic aspects of the fishery, a more processual frame of analysis of the fishing community is required.