Fisheries survey in Cross River State, Nigeria

The survey was performed in the Calabar Municipality, Calabar South, Odukpani, Akpabio and New Bakassi Local Government Areas. Taken as indicator, number of canoes, the largest villages are situated in Akpabio and New Bakassi LGOs and the smallest in Calabar Municipality and Calabar South. The larger villages base economically apart from fishery on oil palm-dominated agriculture. There are villages where each man is a fisher and also a farmer and others, were these main professions are performed by different persons. In the larger villages, there are traditionally operating carpenters (boats builders), hunters, honey samplers and wood cutters. Nearly all women are engaged in fish trading and several as fish and shrimp processor (smoke-drying) and periwinkle sampler/processor. In the larger villages are three sizes of canoes, small for two, medium for seven and large for 10-15 crew members. The small canoes are mainly used for the gill net fishery system on juvenile bonga (ekpai) in the dry season and on croaker and other demersal and semi-demersal species mainly in the raining season and are common in all surveyed villages. They are also used for fisheries with trap, cast net and long line. With mediu sized canoes, it's mainly operated the anchor net for catch of estuarine shrimp and sometimes boat seine for adult bongo (ibat). The larger canoes are engaged in the purse seine fishery on ibat in the near-coastal waters. In most of the larger villages, it is a common expedition fisheries; fishermen leave for up to several weeks out of their homes and operate in the more productive outer estuary and near-coastal waters, mostly on an estuarine shrimp; they produce smoke-dried products in their camps. The mean catch per boat per day for the small about of 5kg, for the medium-sized 15kg and for the larger purse seine canoes more than 100kg. In Calabar Municipality and South LGAs, all catches are sold fresh in own small markets at the landing site. In other LGAs the catches are processing to smoke-dried product is common. However, by using the mostly existing road connections to Calabar, and also selling of fresh fish is performed. By estimation, the monthly mean income per fisher family in the larger villages is N30, 000, after paying for repairs of nets and outboard engine. On the daily income for fish processing and trading, women included N0-500 and the men, probably by N100 or less.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Holzlohner, S., Nwosu, F.M.
Format:	conference_item biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	FISON 2013
Subjects:	Fisheries, Nigeria, Cross River State, freshwater environment, automation,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1834/39069
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