In continuation of The Role of Fishery Sub-Sector to Sustainable Economic Development in Nigeria , we shall be discussing production challenges facing the sub-sector and how to go around them here. Nigeria's total domestic fish production of close to 1 million metric tons (313,231 metric tons from aquaculture and 759,828 metric tons from fisheries) is grossly inadequate for domestic demand with a current national fish consumption at 13.3 kg/person/per year. Despite the high potential for fish production in Nigeria, (37,934 km2 continental shelf area, 853 km coastline, 210, 900km square mile exclusive economic zone, 14 million hectares of inland water surface area and an estimated 2.5m tones aquaculture potential), there is however, very little room for expansion in this area as recent data seem to suggest that operations are approaching or even have surpassed the their maximum sustainable yield as seen in the continuous fall in landing from captured fishes. The hope of f
Our last post focused on measuring the performance of the agriculture sector in Nigeria . T his article series will fall-short of achieving its main objective of appraising the contributory role of the selected livestock sub-sectors to sustainable economic development in Nigeria if it fails to analyze the role of individual sub-sector separately. We are therefore, going to be discussing extensively in this post and series of articles that shall follow the individual role of the four livestock sub-sectors starting with the fishery sub-sector then poultry, piggery and finally cattle production sub-sector contributory role in sustaining Nigeria economy. The system of production, challenges and possible solutions to addressing these challenges for increase productivity in the sub-sectors will also be discussed. Fish culture system in Nigeria can be broadly classified into two stages; these include the hatchery stage and the pond stage. The hatchery stage is the stage where f