FISHERY AND AQUACULTURE PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 61. INVESTIGATING THE LONG-LINE NURSERY SYSTEM FOR GIANT CLAM.

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Long line nursery systems are versatile enough to handle a wide range of nursery systems for clams (Braley, 1999). Nursery rearing as well as grow out can be accomplished on long lines. Trays, tube modules and bags or cages can be hung in deep water for nursery rearing of clams. According to Braley (1999), seeded lines or socks (with adequate pr...Continue Reading »

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• 62. INVESTIGATIONS OF KEY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS DETERMINING THE SUSTAINABILITY AND P...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY For centuries, the coastline has been the most important human habitat, and, as a result, has been subject to a wide range of development pressures (Holland, 1998). Shrimp farming represents additional pressure on these areas, at least potentially. While shrimp farming per se does not necessarily have a significant adverse impact on the coastal ...Continue Reading »

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• 63. MANAGEMENT AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS FOR ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED AND UNREGULATED (IUU) F...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY West Africa’s waters are endowed with one of the world’s richest concentration of finfish, crustaceans and mollusks (Tobor, 1989). In contrast, its coastal fishing communities are amongst the most impoverished and therefore vulnerable to Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing by foreign fishing vessels (FAO, 1995). The inc...Continue Reading »

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• 64. PRAWN HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND DISEASE CONTROL TO SUSTAIN HATCHERY AND POND PRODUCT...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Total world harvest of prawns in the Africa was 2.1% in 1981. In 1989 it had risen to 26%. However, disease and pond environment problems are causing difficulties. During the early 1990s, total production dropped in all the Prawn producing countries. Losses due to disease in Indonesia have been estimated at US$300 million, and in the Philippines...Continue Reading »

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• 65. PREDICTION AND CONTROL OF THE SPOILAGE OF FRESH CURED AND DRIED TROPICAL FISH IN...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Fish and seafood constitute an important food component for a large section of world population (Wafaa et al., 2011). They come after meat and poultry as staple animal protein foods where fish forms a cheap source of protein (Wafaa et al., 2011). Sea foods have traditionally being a popular part of the diet in many parts of the world and in some...Continue Reading »

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• 66. RESTORING DAMAGED CORAL REEFS USING MASS CORAL LARVAL RESEEDING

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Reef corals are critically important because they build the primary reef framework, supply essential habitats for thousands of fish and other species, and provide direct energy and other nutrient inputs to the ecosystem (Gardner et al, 2003). But the loss of substantial live coral cover on reefs fundamentally through overfishing, eutrophication ...Continue Reading »

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• 67. SEA RANCHING AND RESTOCKING SANDFISH IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Holothuria scabra, or the sandfish, is a species of sea cucumber in the family Holothuriidae. It was placed in the subgenus Metriatyla by Rowe in 1969 and is the type species of the subgenus. Sandfish are harvested and processed and eaten in several coastal communities all over the world. Sea cucumbers are marine invertebrates and are closely re...Continue Reading »

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• 68. SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES IN NIGERIA: BENEFITS TO HOUSEHOLDS, THE ROLES OF WOMEN, AN...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Women play a critical role in every link of the value chain in small scale fisheries, although their best known roles are in processing and marketing of fish and other fishery products. This perception of the highly gender segregated division of labour (men fishing/women processing) has shaped the generalized approach in supporting development i...Continue Reading »

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• 69. THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPING RESERVOIR AQUACULTURE IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Reservoirs are rarely and or never created for fishery purposes. However, the secondary use of the impounded waters for fisheries is becoming an increasingly important activity, particularly in Nigeria, the region that is purported to have the highest reservoir acreage amongst all continents. Reservoir fish production is also gradually becoming ...Continue Reading »

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• 70. INTEGRATED FISHERIES RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Integrated Fisheries Resources Management is an initiative and strategies aimed at addressing the issue of how fish resources in a nation can be best shared between competing users within the broad context of ecologically sustainable development so that they can be managed on a sustainable basis (Davies et al, 2008). Hunger and malnutrition rema...Continue Reading »

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• 71. SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES IN NIGERIA: BENEFITS TO HOUSEHOLDS, THE ROLES OF WOMEN, AN...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Women play a critical role in every link of the value chain in small scale fisheries, although their best known roles are in processing and marketing of fish and other fishery products. This perception of the highly gender segregated division of labour (men fishing/women processing) has shaped the generalized approach in supporting development i...Continue Reading »

  56 pages |  2,322 engagements | 

• 72. INVESTIGATING THE LONG-LINE NURSERY SYSTEM FOR GIANT CLAM

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Long line nursery systems are versatile enough to handle a wide range of nursery systems for clams (Braley, 1999). Nursery rearing as well as grow out can be accomplished on long lines. Trays, tube modules and bags or cages can be hung in deep water for nursery rearing of clams. According to Braley (1999), seeded lines or socks (with adequate pr...Continue Reading »

  65 pages |  708 engagements | 

• 73. INTEGRATED FISHERIES RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Integrated Fisheries Resources Management is an initiative and strategies aimed at addressing the issue of how fish resources in a nation can be best shared between competing users within the broad context of ecologically sustainable development so that they can be managed on a sustainable basis (Davies et al, 2008). Hunger and malnutrition rema...Continue Reading »

  56 pages |  769 engagements | 

• 74. INDIGENOUS FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Coastal indigenous fishing communities have close economic, social and cultural linkages with marine ecosystems that are vital for maintaining their food security and cultural heritage (Durand, 2003). Like other small scale fisheries, they are vulnerable to global changes, including those related to climate. Little is known, however, about the i...Continue Reading »

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• 75. INLAND AQUACULTURE IN NIGERIA: IMPROVING FINGERLING SUPPLY AND FISH NUTRITION FO...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Aquaculture is the husbandry of aquatic food organisms. The need arose from the decrease in supply from ocean fisheries as a result of over fishing, habitat destruction and pollution. One of the ways to bridge the gap between the reduced fish supply and increased world food fish demand is through aquaculture. Africa including Nigeria has little ...Continue Reading »

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• 76. IMPROVING RESILIENCE AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITY OF FISHERIES-DEPENDENT COMMUNITIES IN...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY More than 70% of people living in riverine area including the Nigeria Niger Delta derive most of their basic needs from subsistence fishing and agriculture. However, threats to the ability of small scale fisheries to continue to provide villagers’ needs are increasing. In Nigeria, the rural sector comprises more than 60% of the population ...Continue Reading »

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• 77. IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY OF SMALLHOLDER SHRIMP AQUACULTURE AND R...

  » INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Shrimp is the most important export product in fishery sector of most riverside countries of the world. Farming at each level can be profitable and sustainable, as long as biosecurity, productivity, environmental and social requirements are properly managed. To remain competitive and to protect export market access, governments and industry supply chains ar...Continue Reading »

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• 78. EXPLORING OPTIONS FOR IMPROVING LIVELIHOODS AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA C...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Nigeria is endowed with a long coastline of about 960km, a large area of inshore waters, and a vast inland system comprising natural and man made lakes, rivers, creeks, lagoons and wetlands all of which support a good variety of fisheries. Thus, artisanal fisheries occupy a very significant position in the Nigerian economy providing employment f...Continue Reading »

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• 79. EXPANDING SPINY LOBSTER AQUACULTURE IN NIGERIA

  » SPINY LOBSTER AQUACULTURE 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Spiny lobsters are of two different species known as Panulirus homarus and Panulirus ornatus with cylindrical shaped body comprising cephalothorax, heavily spined and conspicuously marked by two frontal supra orbital horns; abdomen smoother, having six somites with no distinct rostrum (Priyambodo & Jaya, 2010). They are characterized with l...Continue Reading »

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• 80. DIVERSIFICATION OF SMALLHOLDER COASTAL AQUACULTURE IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Diversification is the process by which a smallholder increases the diversity (i.e. number) of its income generating activities (Ellis 2000). Often studied in association with adaptation and accumulation, it is a strategy used by smallholder coaster fish farmers to secure income and consumption needs whilst minimizing the risks of failing to do ...Continue Reading »

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