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Operational Constraints Associated with Artisanal Fisheries Value Chain along Ogun River Basin, Ogun State, Nigeria
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Artisanal fish production and marketing constitute the major business activity of the fish communities of Ogun River in Ogun State Nigeria. This study profiled the revenues and constraints of the value chain actors along the Ogun River basin, Ogun State. A two-stage multi-sampling procedure was adopted in selecting 86 fishers, 29 fish marketers and 36 fish processors from five fishing communities (Oyan, Alamutu, Lafenwa, Oriyanrin, and Akomoje). Data were collected with an interview schedule and analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean and analysis of variance. Results revealed that more than two-thirds (67.4%) of the fishers made use of gillnets, followed by cast net (50.0%), hook and line (41.9%) and gura net (38.4%). The mean annual revenue of fishers was N5,996,083.72 while the fish marketers and fish processors earned average revenues of N1,015,040.00 and N587,241.38 respectively. The most severe constraints faced were lack of funding for business expansion, lack of modern equipment and inadequate preservation facilities. The difference in total revenues of value chain actors was significant (F = 28.730, p<0.01). The mean difference in revenue of fishers and marketers was significant (mean difference = N5009239.28, p<0.01), and the difference in mean revenue of fishers and fish processors was significant (mean difference = N5408842.34, p<0.01). It was concluded that artisanal fishing has constrained value chains, the fishers earned higher revenues from fishing activities than the other value chain actors. It was then recommended that educated persons especially young graduates are encouraged to engage in fisheries enterprises such as actual fishing, processing and marketing of fish, improved fisheries technologies, diversification as well as non-fisheries related enterprises by fisher folks should be adopted by the value chain actors. This could minimize the risks associated with over-dependence on nature-based occupations which are easily affected by changes in weather conditions.
