Cameroon: Youpwe Market Needs Cleanliness

The Youpwe fish market is a busy marketplace with buyers. Unlike most food markets, hustling and bustling quickly dies down at about 11 am as teeming population is over with purchases on their menu. One thing remains permanent until buying and selling resume the next day - scavengers. They hustle to have a bite of leftover fish indiscriminately discharged in and around the market.

Along the coast of Douala there are no fish assembly markets, but one fish landing place - Youpwe. Youpwe is a hub for fresh fish from the waters of the Atlantic at the locality of Manoka in the Douala VI Subdivision and River Wouri supplying other markets in Douala and cities like Yaounde and Sangmelima the second most affordable protein after egg, although fish also gives vitamins. Landings fluctuate causing frequent changes in price and quantity of supplies. Since fish is consumed mostly in a short distance from production and landing, normally within the city, it is difficult to buy fresh marine products for consumption in far off regions of the country. Consequently, most of the products get bad on the spot and sometimes discharged into the environment.

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