Mauritania - Improving school meals with locally caught fish from artisanal fisheries

The GOPA Group Companies AFC and COFAD conducted a GIZ project identification study regarding the potential of introducing locally caught fish from Mauritanian shores in the school meals of the country. There are more than 50.000 pupils between 6 and 12 years of age who are not regularly supplied with meals at school. While the WFP has conducted a trial phase with imported meals it is the scope of this study to identify how locally caught fish (small pelagic species like sardines and mackerel can be used regularly for feeding school children. This would at one hand improve protein nutrition of small children and on the other hand create new income source for artisanal fishermen and women mainly working in the processing and sales segment.​ Read more