| The desire of the nation has been to attain self–sufficiency in food production by the year 2000. More importantly, the need is to increase the animal protein intake of the average Nigeria, which has been low, at about 19.38g/Capita/day, far below the 65 g/Capita/day recommended by FAO in the light of its identification as the indicator and determinant of dietary quality. In the agricultural sector, all fisheries products have great contributions towards the provision of animal protein thus the concern for constant improvement of the fisheries sub-sector of agriculture. Successive governments in Nigeria have introduced several measures to achieve increase in food production. As it affects the fisheries sub-sector, one of the identified constraints to... |
