Title :
Fisheries and aquaculture development in Nigeria: An appraisal
Author :
Adewumi, Adejoke Abeni ; Fagbenro, Oyedapo Adewale
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Pure Sci., Univ. of Educ., Ikere Ekiti, Nigeria
Abstract :
Nigeria owns significant fisheries with a coastline of 853 km and over 14 million hectares of inland waters. The contribution of fisheries to the Nigerian economy is significant. However, the industry is laden with various problems. The domestic fish production (0.61 MT) has fallen short of the demand (1.55 million MT). To achieve the much desired fish-food sufficiency, aquaculture development is the solution.
Keywords :
aquaculture; macroeconomics; Nigeria; Nigerian economy; aquaculture development; fish-food sufficiency; fisheries; Appraisal; Aquaculture; Educational technology; History; Marine animals; Production; Protein engineering; Sea measurements; US Government; Water resources; Fish; Nigeria; aquaculture; fisheries; overfishing; shrimp;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology (ICBBT), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6775-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBT.2010.5478927
