Investor Presentaiton
IIFET 2012 Tanzania Proceedings
[17] explained that Nigeria, like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, is endowed with
substantial marine and inland fisheries resources, upon which the fisheries sector is based.
However, since the 1980's, production trend in the sector has been very unstable particularly, in
the coastal/brackish water artisanal sector which provides the bulk of the domestic production.
[10] explained that it is estimated that about 10 million people particularly youths, are engaged in
artisanal fishing in Nigeria.
[14] reported that artisanal fisheries in Nigeria provided more than 82% of the domestic fish
supply, giving livelihoods to one. million fishermen and up to 5.8 million fisher folks in the
secondary sector. However, Tietze et al. (2005) noted that the use of poor quality fishing
materials can limit fish catch levels and that efforts should generally focus on the quest for
improved fishing techniques and gears to replace the low yielding traditional fishing methods.
With a huge potential area of between 12-14 million hectares, and a low production estimate put
at about 700,000 million tons of fish annually, while current needs put at a minimum of 2 million
metric tons of fish to feed the population of over 140 million [12]. The economic importance of
these to the community include source of food, provision of employment, source of foreign
exchange/income, tool to rural development and source of raw materials to manufacturers ([19];
[1]).
[13] then stated that the increasing production is not able to meet the increasing rate of
consumption because of the wide gap between fish demand and supply, which is on the rise as a
result of population explosion in the country in recent years. [17] stated that the capacity of
artisanal fisheries to play its triple role of a food supplier, employment provider and income
earner in the Nigerian economy depends on the adoption of appropriate management strategies
that will ensure their sustainability in the face of intense fishing pressure. This study examined
the structural performance of artisanal fish marketing in Ondo State, Nigeria. It looks at the
socio-economic characteristics of the artisanal fish marketers, structure and conduct of artisanal
fish marketing system in the study area, profitability of artisanal fish marketing, and operational
efficiencies of the artisanal fish marketers in the study area.
Methodology
Study Area: The study was carried out in Ilaje and Ese-Odo Local Government Areas of Ondo
State, Nigeria. These areas were selected for the study because of their suitability for fishing
activities as they are close to rivers where fishes are always available for consumption.
Data Sources and Collection: Data collected for the purpose of this study were gotten from
primary source through the use of well structured questionnaires. As a result of low literacy rate
of farmers, trained enumerators, who understood the local dialects, were used to administer the
questionnaire on the artisanal fish marketers. Multistage sampling technique was employed in
the selection of the respondents in the study area. In the first stage, purposive sampling technique
was used to select two Local Government Areas (Ilaje and Ese-Odo LGAs) based on the
predominance of fishing activities in these areas. The second stage featured random sampling
technique to select five (5) fishing communities from each of the selected Local Government
areas. The fishing communities selected are Igbokoda, Ayetoro, Orioke-Iwamimo, Araromi-
seaside and Mahintedo from Ilaje, while Igbekebo, Ipoke, Agadagba Oboh, Igbotu and Kiribo
are the fishing communities selected from Ese-Odo. The third stage also involved the random
sampling technique to select 25 artisanal fish sellers from each of the ten selected communities
totaling 250 respondents.
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