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Research Seminar No.229, 29 May 2023
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building, 5th Floorbr
「Dagaa industry in Zanzibar islands: Significance as a protein food supply for inland countries」
FUJIMOTO Mariko
(Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University)
Zanzibar, an Indian Ocean island region in Tanzania, has a thriving anchovy fishing and processing industry. Anchovies and other small fish in general are called dagaa in Swahili language. Dagaa is a familiar and important protein source that can be called the national dish of Tanzania. This presentation introduces the dagaa processing industry in various areas of Tanzania, with particular focus on the dried anchovy processing industry in Zanzibar.
Zanzibar is about an hour and a half by ferry from Dar es Salaam, the prime city of Tanzania. Many merchants from the inland Democratic Republic of the Congo (hereafter referred to as D.R. Congo) visit these remote islands area to buy large quantities of dried anchovy and send them back to their home countries. In D.R. Congo, people's infrastructure was destroyed due to the civil war that broke out in the 90's and the political instability that followed. Many refugees continued to be forced to use wild animals as protein food in the tropical rainforests. Wild animals are rapidly declining, and in recent years, people's protein sources have shifted from meat to fish.
I investigated the anchovy fishery in Zanzibar, the middlemen’s processing industry, and the trade practices among Congolese merchants and local middlemen, and clarified the food chain of dagaa. And I conducted a field survey in Lubumbashi, the second largest city of D.R. Congo and revealed that dried anchovy (dagaa) of Zanzibar is distributed not only in D.R. Congo but also in neighboring countries. In this presentation, I introduce the dagaa industry in Zanzibar and tried to discuss its significance in terms of protein food supply to inland countries.
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