Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profile for Cape Verde Islands
- aquatic species caught by country or area, by species items, by
FAO major fishing areas, and year, for all commercial, industrial,
recreational and subsistence purposes. The harvest from mariculture,
aquaculture and other kinds of fish farming is also included.
Information on Cape Verde Islands from Wikipedia - The
Republic of Cape Verde (Portuguese: Cabo Verde, IPA: ['kabu 'veɾdɨ])
is a republic located on an archipelago in the Macaronesia ecoregion
of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa. The
previously uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the
Portuguese in the fifteenth century (though there may have been
earlier discoveries). The country is named after Cap Vert (meaning
Green Cape) in Senegal, the westernmost point of continental Africa.
The
Cape Verde Islands are in the Atlantic Ocean, 620km west of
Mauritania on the west coast
of Africa . There are 10 major
islands (9 of them inhabited) and 5 islets, all of volcanic origin
and grouped into the Barlavento (Windward) group (Santo Antão, São
Vicente, Santa Luzia, Ilheu Branco, Ilheu Raso, São Nicolau, Sal and
Boa Vista) to the north and the Sotavento (Leeward) group (Maio,
Santiago, Fogo and Brava) to the south. The contrast between the
"flat" islands like Sal, Boavista and Maio and the "mountainous"
islands like Santo Antão and Fogo is very dramatic indeed.
Government of Cape
Verde Website - Republica de Cabo Verde
