5. Fishing for food and food for fish

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Résumé

In response to threats of chronic water scarcity and episodes of severe and long-term drought, the government of Burkina Faso started to create a widely dispersed network of water storage facilities throughout the whole country in 1950. As fisheries ,thes ereservoir shav eals obecom eimportan tne wsources of food (Petit et al. 2009, Venot et al. 2011). However, there exist several threats to the services, e.g. fis han dwate rquality ,tha tthes eartifici alaquat icsources provide (CNID-B. 2010a&b, Mahé et al. 2005). Th epredominan tone sar eover-fishing ,intensiv eagricultura lactivitie saroun dth ewate rresource san dthe process of sedimentation. Within the framework of the Burkinabè national development programme, attaining food security and providing drinking water are central to the government’s national development policies and strategies. Thus ,t oestablis h asustainabl emanagemen to fnatura lan dhuman-made aquatic systems, the responsible Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Fish Resources in Burkina Faso started to develop an integrative water and fish management strategy, which required methods and tools for the standardized assessment of the water quality and ecological status of rivers (MAHRH 2003, 2006).

Mots-clés

Fishing, Fishery, Fish <Actinopterygii>, Biology