EXPANSION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMONSTRATION FISH FARMS

                  EXPANSION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMONSTRATION FISH FARMS

       From 1970 to 1992, bold attempts were made to reduce major constraints concerning fish seed for aquaculture development. During this period there was remarkable increase in the number of fish farms built by both federal and state government agencies, research institutes, universities and some private sector investor. Most of these fish farms were supposed to be commercial farms and many of them were complemented with small- to medium-sized hatcheries, at least to cater for the immediate needs of the provide some excess to sell to other from the wild. They importance, desirability, reliability and inevitability. During this phase seed supply could be broken down as follows;

(i)                Wild collection – 60 percent

(ii)             Natural spawning in ponds – 30 percent; and

(iii)           Hatchery production – 10 percent

The introduction of mordern hatchery infrastructure and facilities was facilitated by an US$1 million grant from Italian government in 1988 and subsequent construction of the hatchery at Oluponna Fish Farm in Osun State (southwest Nigeria) with a capacity to produce 10 million fingerlings. Since then, the model had been replicated in smaller versions in many other places in Nigeria today which has boosted tremendously hatchery-produced fish seed in the country.

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