When fully operational, the activities of the Institute will help boost fish production, generate income and curb unemployment.

The creation of the Limbe Nautical Arts and Fisheries Institute following a Presidential Decree signed on August 12, 2015, has been hailed by the people of Fako Division and the South West Region in general, as a fulfillment of one of their most cherished dreams. At the site of the main campus in Wowea in the outskirts of Limbe, stands the impressive structure that has cost over FCFA 9 billion thanks to the partnership between Cameroon and Spain.

There are no questions concerning the fall-outs and the significance of the Institute situated in the South West. It is one of Cameroon's 10 administrative Regions sitting in the Gulf of Guinea and harbouring a privileged fishing potential. The Region enjoys over 70 per cent of the 400 kilometers of Cameroon's coastal length far above the Littoral and South Regions also opened to the Atlantic. Two of the six administrative Divisions of the South West are largely and directly opened to the sea namely Fako and Ndian.

Meme Division has only its Mbonge Port and Manyu reaches to the sea only through its few rivers. With all these natural potentials and though fishing is estimated by experts to be the richest endowment for Cameroon after minerals, one observes a generalised lack of fishing interest among the indigenous people. For instance, concerning artisanal fishing, the sector is dominated by Nigerians, Ghanaians, Beninois and Togolese. This also explains why over 80 per cent of the fish caught in Cameroon is sold abroad to mostly Nigeria with its fluid accessibility and powerful, osmotic financial market.

Statistics from the Regional Delegation of the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries (French acronym MINEPIA) speaks of 4.563 tons of fish caught in the Regional waters in 2014.  To win the interest of South West indigenes in fishing, the government has made laudable efforts including trans-migrating fishermen from other regions of the country to Fako and Ndian Divisions. And with the creation of the Limbe Nautical Arts and Fisheries Institute by the Head of State, no one can deny the fact that there are better days ahead from artisanal to professional commercial fishing.