Status survey of artisanal fisheries in Hadejia Emirate, Jigawa State
2012
Farida, S. | Idris, S. | Nasir, M.A.
A study was conducted to investigate the status of artisanal fishery in Hadejia emirate of Jigawa state, Nigeria using a total of 192 well structured questionnaires in eight local government areas. The questionnaire captured information on biodata of respondents, water bodies and their uses, types of fish caught, level of catch and fishing gears used. The results obtained showed that fishing was mostly practices by male (79.69%), within the age of 25-35 years (33.86%) and married (61.46%) and most of them were found to be at tertiary institution of learning (55.73%). The study also revealed that majority used rivers as water source (52.08%) while only (31.25%) used the rivers for fishing and majority of their catch were Tilapia and Clarias (72.92%) with (52.60%) catching a large number above 30 per day. During catching 65 (33.85%) used Gill net, 52 (27.08%) used Cast net, 45 (23.44%) used Hook and line, while only 30 (15.63%) used Seine net.
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