Fisheries & Blue Economy
Mauritania’s Atlantic fisheries value chain includes harvesting, landing, processing, cold storage, distribution, and export activity. Investment opportunities may arise in seafood processing, aquaculture, cold-chain systems, and marine services, subject to licensing, resource-management requirements, technical feasibility, and market conditions.
Key Fisheries & Blue Economy Opportunities
Seafood Processing
Investment opportunities include fish processing, freezing, cold storage, packaging, and value-added seafood production, supporting greater local processing and integration into domestic and export value chains.
Aquaculture
Aquaculture remains an emerging area in Mauritania, with potential for further development subject to suitable sites, technical feasibility, environmental safeguards, and an appropriate regulatory framework.
Marine Logistics
Investment opportunities include cold-chain infrastructure, refrigerated transport, fish handling and landing services, and logistics solutions connecting coastal production with processing facilities and domestic and export markets.
Selected Fisheries Infrastructure & Investment Platforms
Fisheries activity is supported by coastal ports, landing and handling facilities, processing infrastructure, and investment zones that connect harvesting with onshore value-added activities and export logistics.
Nouadhibou Fisheries Port Infrastructure
Nouadhibou hosts key port infrastructure serving industrial, coastal, and artisanal fisheries, alongside fish landing, handling, processing, cold-storage, and maritime logistics activities.
Nouakchott Artisanal Fishing Port
Nouakchott is an important centre for artisanal fisheries and fresh-fish distribution, linking coastal landings with local markets and distribution to other parts of Mauritania.
Nouadhibou Free Zone
The Nouadhibou Free Zone provides an investment platform for fisheries-related processing, packaging, logistics, and other industrial and service activities, supported by port infrastructure and dedicated investment areas.
Key Fisheries & Blue Economy Companies and Institutions
IMROP (Mauritania)
Mauritania’s fisheries and oceanographic research institute conducts resource assessment, ecosystem monitoring, and scientific research that supports fisheries-management and sustainability decisions
Fuzhou HongDong (China)
FiTI Mauritania recorded Mauritanianized large-scale fishing vessels associated with Fuzhou HongDong operating under Mauritania’s national fishing regime in 2024. Their activities are subject to the applicable licensing, access-right, landing, and fisheries-management requirements.
SMCP (Mauritania)
SMCP is a Mauritanian mixed-ownership company whose official mandate includes marketing and exporting fishery products, monitoring national production, regulating product placement on international markets, and promoting Mauritanian seafood
References
1 — Ministry of Fisheries, Maritime, and Port Infrastructure — Mauritania
2 — SMCP-Mauritanian Fish Marketing Company
3 — Nouadhibou Free Zone Authority
4 — IMROP — Fisheries Research, Resource Assessment and Monitoring
5 — FiTI Mauritania — Fisheries Transparency Information 2024
6 — U.S. International Trade Administration — Mauritania Fisheries
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