Effect of Socio-economic Factors on Fish Catch in Lower Ogun River, Isheri-olofin and Ihsasi, Ogun State, Nigeria

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dc.creatorIkenweiwe, Nafisat Bolatito
dc.creatorIdowu, Adekule Adedoyin
dc.creatorBamidele, Nathanael Akinsafe
dc.creatorSamuel, Otubusin
dc.creatorFadipe, Eunice Oluremi
dc.date2017-04-01T13:45:33Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T07:00:40Z
dc.descriptionThis study was undertaken to investigate the effect of socioeconomic factors on fish catch around the Lower Ogun River in Isheri-Olofin area (downstream) and Ishasi (upstream). Two hundred and fifty (250) respondents were randomly sampled. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and chisquare. It was found that a large percentage (74.4%) owned personal fishing craft. 18% of the respondents have not had any formal education, 38.4% had attended primary school, 42.4% had attended secondary school, and 1.2% had attended a tertiary institution. Majority (62%) of the respondents were married while 31.2 % were single. The result shows that 98.4% of the respondents constitutes male while the remaining 1.6% constitutes female. 70.4 % of the respondents fall within the age bracket of 15–40 years while the remaining 29.6 % are elderly with age range of 41-66 years. It was also discovered that there is a significance decline in the abundance of catch in the downstream compared to the upstream. There is significant difference between the two stations in all socioeconomic factors evaluated.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.147568
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/147568/files/247-257.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/147568
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/583488
dc.languageeng
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dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/147568
dc.titleEffect of Socio-economic Factors on Fish Catch in Lower Ogun River, Isheri-olofin and Ihsasi, Ogun State, Nigeria
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