Inland fishers

What you do

• Catch freshwater fish in rivers, lakes, floodplains and reservoirs
• Set and haul nets, traps, lines and other gear suited to each water body
• Preserve catches by icing, smoking or immediate drying according to available means
• Sell fresh or processed fish to fish traders, local markets and collectors
• Take part in community management of fishing grounds and respect closed seasons

You are an upstream producer in the inland fisheries value chain. You receive gear, ice and small equipment from local suppliers, together with guidance from the relevant services and fishers’ groups. You deliver your catches to fish traders, artisanal smokers and dryers, rural markets and the collectors who serve the cities. You secure an affordable source of protein in areas far from the coast, and you unlock for downstream actors a raw material whose value and outlets depend on rapid preservation.

Along the major rivers and inland water bodies: floodplains and lakes of the Far North and North, hydroelectric reservoirs of the Centre, Adamawa and East, rivers and streams of the forest zone of the South and East. Catches reach the markets of Maroua, Garoua, Ngaoundéré, Bertoua and Yaoundé.

The headings that project promoters, partners and institutions look at first. Fill them in with your real orders of magnitude: this is what makes your profile usable.

• Cut post-catch losses through ice, improved smoking kilns and clean drying facilities
• Access compliant, durable fishing gear at an affordable cost through group purchasing
• Secure regular outlets with fish traders and the collectors who supply urban markets
• Take part in concerted management of water bodies to protect the resource over time
• Join forces to share equipment, transport and marketing with other fishers

44 referenced risks, rated and tied to a control plan. These are the families of the register that touch your activity — rating your project is the object of the resilience assessment, the condition of the step 4 milestone of the cycle.

See the milestones and their resilience conditions →

• Building a bankable file — The 7 items funders really expect — and the mistakes that get a file rejected out of hand.
• EUDR compliance for producers — The European deforestation regulation: what changes for Cameroonian cocoa, coffee and rubber.
• Quality certification checklist — GLOBALG.A.P., Organic, HACCP: where to start depending on your actor profile and your value chain.
• Structuring your financial plan — The CAPEX / OPEX / cash-flow-per-cycle method, applied to crop and livestock projects.
• Monter un dossier bancable — les 7 composantes essentielles — Ce qu'un comité de crédit attend réellement : les 7 composantes d'un dossier de financement solide.
• Guide de conformité aux exigences d'exportation — Règlement Déforestation (RDUE) Cacao & Café — Exporter vers l'UE après le RDUE : géolocalisation des parcelles, diligence raisonnée et preuves attendues.
• Fiche fiscale 2026 — Fiscalité foncière et sécurisation agricole au Cameroun — Ce que la Loi de Finances 2026 change pour vos terres : exonérations de TPF pour l'agriculture, l'élevage et la pêche, frais de bornage réduits de moitié, et l'immatriculation foncière en 4 étapes budgétées en FCFA.
• Guide 2026 des financements agricoles et agro-industriels au Cameroun — Les guichets qui financent réellement l'agriculture et l'élevage — BC-PME (FINAGRO, PIISAH), ACEFA, CamCCUL, MINADER, AFD (C2D), BAD — et la méthode pour leur présenter un dossier bancable.
• Auto-évaluation OHADA — votre GIC ou coopérative est-il éligible aux crédits ? — Grille de diagnostic en 4 domaines (structure juridique, comptabilité, gouvernance, sûretés) pour situer votre groupement face aux exigences de l'Acte Uniforme OHADA — la clé d'accès aux guichets de financement.
• The documents area — the pieces to gather, step by step, and the templates.