This document is the report of the 17th session of the Committee for Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture of Africa (CIFAA), which was held in Banjul, the Gambia, from 9 to 11 May 2017. A total of 28 delegates from 10 member countries and 3 observers attended the 17th ordinary session. The session covered the main topics of: follow up of intersessional activities and way forward; outcomes of the sixth annual meeting of the Aquaculture network for Africa and the Status of Inland fisheries and way forward; and proposals for the main topics of the eighteenth ordinary session of the CIFAA.