AN OVERVIEW OF THE FISH ISSUES FACING GWAGWALADA FISH FARMERS AND TRADERS, NIGERIA'S ABUJA

Fish farming is currently one of the agricultural industries with the  quickest rate of growth, making  Nigeria the continent’s second-largest producer of aquaculture. Furthermore, Nigeria leads the world in the production of African bonytongue (Heterotis niloticus) and African catfish (Clarias gariepinus). However, there are a number of disconnections between the fish marketers, sellers, transporters, in the Fede ral Capital Territory’s Gwagwalada areas council. As a result, some of the se places have high fish prices, in the markets, from which farmers often receive goods. Furthermore, most feed manufacturers utilize a fish waste, which affects fish availability, pricing, and demand, making it hard for most farmers  to meet market demands for fish.

Additionally, there are unidentified and unacknowledged groups of people in charge of the marketing, processing, and sale of various fish products. Based on our analysis of this work, we have found that there is a significant lack of innovative fish drying and transportation methods The entire value chain, in the marketing, preservation, and use of fish products, the lack of farm space, the inadequate power supply, the insecurity, the poor road system, the high cost of feed, the death rate, the contaminated water, the farm workers, and the storage of the fish products in the markets. Our paper therefore recommends solutions to address these issues and calls for research and development on how to approach this and conducted some oral interviews. The results indicate that most of them still think that there are various opportunities related to the value of marketing, transportation, and farming, and that we should investigate and manage them. Whereas the government was now unsure on how to solve the issues with transportation and fish drying in order to increase the productivity of the fish sector.

Keywords:  Fish, Farming, I ssues, farmers, Gwagwalada

 Pictorials representation of   the field  Survey  in Gwagwalada, Abuja, Nigeria