RECENT PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Coastal indigenous fishing communities have close economic, social and cultural linkages with marine ecosystems that are vital for maintaining their food security and cultural heritage (Durand, 2003). Like other small-scale fisheries, they…

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Aquaculture is the husbandry of aquatic food organisms. The need arose from the decrease in supply from ocean fisheries as a result of over-fishing, habitat destruction and pollution. One of the ways…

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Integrated Fisheries Resources Management is an initiative and strategies aimed at addressing the issue of how fish resources in a nation can be best shared between competing users within the broad context…

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Long-line nursery systems are versatile enough to handle a wide range of nursery systems for clams (Braley, 1999). Nursery rearing as well as grow-out can be accomplished on long-lines. Trays, tube modules…

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY For centuries, the coastline has been the most important human habitat, and, as a result, has been subject to a wide range of development pressures (Holland, 1998). Shrimp farming represents additional pressure…

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Commercial lobster farming is becoming very popular day by day and it’s a very profitable business (Beveridge, 1996). Among all the highly-priced marine crustacean, lobsters are larger in size. A mature lobster…

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Total world harvest of prawns in the Africa was 2.1% in 1981. In 1989 it had risen to 26%. However, disease and pond environment problems are causing difficulties. During the early 1990s,…

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Fish and seafood constitute an important food component for a large section of world population (Wafaa et al., 2011). They come after meat and poultry as staple animal protein foods where fish…

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Reef corals are critically important because they build the primary reef framework, supply essential habitats for thousands of fish and other species, and provide direct energy and other nutrient inputs to the…

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Holothuria scabra, or the sandfish, is a species of sea cucumber in the family Holothuriidae. It was placed in the subgenus Metriatyla by Rowe in 1969 and is the type species of…