Less than 10 percent of Nigeria’s fishing resources explored

There exists the possibility of putting over 60,000 hectares of land into fish farming in the Nigeria and only 10 per cent of this has been explored.

This clearly shows that much investment is still needed in fish farming in Nigeria to effectively utilize the resources which are currently under-utilized, say industry analysts.

These land resources include those of brackish water resources,

fresh water aquaculture resources, dams and reservoir resources, development projects of River Basins Development Authorities and those of private land resources whose opportunity cost is almost zero but which can be used for fish farming.