“…However, preservation of fish in the tropical countries is difficult due to its extreme perishability, the lack of adequate infrastructures of preservation, the climatic conditions and the poor handling which favor its spoilage in few hours (Kindossi et al, 2012). Fish post-capture loss can be limited by developing processing methods such as drying, smoking and fermentation sometimes in combination with salting (Anihouvi, Kindossi, & Hounhouigan, 2012;Ezeama, 2012;Kindossi et al, 2012). Natural fermentation is one of the processing methods mostly used over the world in combination with salting followed sometimes by drying (Wang, Xia, Gao, Xu, & Jiang, 2017).…”