An assessment of the problems of fisheries data collection in Nigeria
This paper reports on a survey, which studied the problems working against fisheries data collection in the country. The purpose of this was to quantify the capacity of the States to effectively collect data needed for planning and development of the fisheries sector and to assess the impact of this on the process of data collection and the quality of the data collected. Four organizational levels of data collection - Enumerator, L.G.A, zone & State - were recognized by the study, but their efficiency is weakened by inadequacies of manpower, budgets & logistics. The magnitudes of these problems vary among the States but their effects are adverse all over. The current efforts of the Federal Department of Fisheries and other stakeholders to strengthen fisheries data collection in the states should be intensified both in magnitude and frequency to be able to achieve adequate capacity for generating adequate data for planning and development of the fisheries sector.
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| Format: | conference_item biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Fisheries Society of Nigeria
2009
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, Nigeria, freshwater environment, Data collections, Fishery data, Catch statistics, Fishery statistics, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/38042 |
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