Socioeconomic Profiling of Artisanal Fishing in Eastern Obolo Local

Blessing, because the country provides a ready and big market for the products of artisanal fishing, and curse, because the country is unable to meet the fish and food needs of its homologous population. [...] unexplained variance) 3.0 Results and Discussion Sex of the Respondents The distribution of the artisanal fish farmers according to their sex is shown in Figure 2. [...] While fishing, the farmers are exposed to the vagaries of weather, the uncertainties of the tides and waves of the oceans, rives, lakers, streams and their tributaries, and their basic sanitary and hygienic practices are best described as primitive. [...] Age of the Respondents The results of the frequency distribution and analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests on the distribution of the fishermen according to their age and access to credit facilities are shown in Table 1. [...] Interaction of Respondents’ Age and Access to Credit Facility The results of the interaction between the age and access to credit facility of the respondents are presented in Table 3.