Table 4 Estimation of the RCR

From: Best for pleasure, not for business: evaluating recreational marine fisheries in West Africa using unconventional sources of data

Country

Recreational

Total revenue/tonne

RCR

 

Catch

Participants

Recreational

Commercial

 

Morocco

29,755

5,180

11,645

3,350

3.5

Mauritania

47

100

54,909

2,824

19.4

Cape Verde

593

4,786

23,718

6,055

3.9

Senegal

1,646

9,405

19,713

2,670

7.4

Gambia

282

3,890

34,867

1,968

17.7

Guinea Bissau

166

1,476

30,406

2,684

11.3

Ghana

849

3,724

25,064

5,486

4.6

Togo

22

68

11,958

2,274

5.3

Equatorial Guinea

8

192

54,851

3,784

14.5

Angola

92

1,208

26,078

4,225

6.2

Namibia

328

15,461

160,262

5,051

31.7

Total (Weighted mean*)

33,788

45,490

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7.4 †

  1. * The mean was weighted by the number of fishers in each country
  2. † Computed without Namibia that is an outlier; the weighted average RCR value including Namibia is 15.6
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