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In Nigeria, aquaculture is showing great potential for creating businesses and jobs as demand for aquatic foods is high in Africa’s most populous country. In Nigeria, fish accounts for 37% of animal protein intake
In Nigeria, aquaculture is showing great potential for creating businesses and jobs as demand for aquatic foods is high in Africa’s most populous country. In Nigeria, fish accounts for 37% of animal protein intake.
A recent analysis of the Nigerian catfish sector by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO) showed that the estimated value of annual catfish production is US$2.6 billion. Through the FISH4ACP program, the FAO and its partners have set themselves a goal to improve the sector’s productivity and competitiveness in order to make catfish farming more sustainable in both socio-economic and environmental terms. It is an initiative of the Organization of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States to ensure food and nutrition security.
Countries like Nigeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, etc are experimenting with the FAO scheme with great success. Catfish, Oysters, and other varieties of fish are grown under the scheme, which apart from giving sustainable income security, ensures protein-rich food to people.
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China is the ruler of the world’s largest fish producer and is far ahead of second and third largest producers, Indonesia and India respectively. With a total global fish production of 178.8 million tons, China accounts for one-third of the world’s fish production. In Nigeria, total fish production is close to one million metric tons. Of that 313,231 metric tons are from aquaculture and 759,828 metric tons from fisheries.
