These smaller fish called pelagic or low-value fish are more nutritional than the large fish with a lot of meat that are being sold to export markets because if eaten whole, they provide micronutrients that large fish eaten without the bones don t provide. This reality is often overlooked. Africans used to consume a lot of inexpensive pelagic fish supplied by the former USSR fishing fleet. But now there are fewer and fewer of them on the market because it is not profitable to fish for them. We have to find a technical solution to reduce the cost of catching these fish so that they can be put on the market and made available at a reasonable price to poor people in Africa, where malnutrition is high and the purchasing power is low.
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