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Nigeria Industrial trawl finfish fishery

Fishery Fact Sheet

FCWC Fisheries Reports 2020

Nigeria Industrial trawl finfish fishery

Industrial trawler fish fishery

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Location of Nigeria Industrial trawl finfish fishery

Fishery Ident

Geographic reference: Nigeria
Spatial Scale: Value
Reference Year: 2019

Approach: Fishing Activity

Fishing Activity
Fishing Gear: Single boat bottom otter trawls
Type of production system: Industrial
Fishery Area: Nigeria
Seasonality: All year

Harvested Resource
Target Species: null; Bigeye grunt; Tonguesole nei …

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Means of Production
Vessel Type:

ident Block
Type: Measure

Table of Contents

Fishing Activity - Post Harvest - Management - Source of Information - Bibliography

Fishing Activity

Type of production system: Industrial

Fishery Area

Climatic zone: Tropical. Depth zone: Shelf-Uppershelf up 100m. Horizontal distribution: Neritic. Vertical distribution: Demersal.

Within 5 and 10 nautical miles of the territorial waters

Geo References for: Nigeria

Resources Exploited

West African croakers - Nigeria and Cameroon
Lesser African threadfin - Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé e Príncipe
Tonguesole - Nigeria and Cameroon

Target Species

Arius spp

FAO Names : null

Brachydeuterus auritus

FAO Names : en - Bigeye grunt, fr - Lippu pelon, es - Burro ojón, ru - Отоперка

Cynoglossus spp

FAO Names : en - Tonguesole nei, fr - Sole-langues nca, es - Lenguas nep

Galeoides decadactylus

FAO Names : en - Lesser African threadfin, fr - Petit capitaine, es - Barbudo enano africano

Polydactylus quadrifilis

FAO Names : en - Giant African threadfin, fr - Gros capitaine, es - Barbudo gigante africano

Pseudotolithus spp

FAO Names : en - West African croakers nei, fr - Otolithes nca, es - Corvinas africanas nep, ru - Горбыли-капитаны

Raja miraletus

FAO Names : en - Brown ray, fr - Raie miroir, es - Raya de espejos

Adult

Vessel Type

Vessel length: <25.3 meters

Catch Handling and Processing Equipment

Freezers, ice

Crew

Flag State

Ghana

Nigeria

Fishing Gear

Single boat bottom otter trawls
Cod-end mesh size = 76 mm

Protected Species (Bycatch)

Sea turtle, Marine mammals

Seasonality

All year

Ports

Kirikiri Lighter terminal port, Lagos

Trip Duration

5 days; 30 - 35 days

Fisherfolks Community

Ghana and Nigeria nationals

Fishery Indicator List

Fishery Indicator

Fishery Indicator	Fishery Indicator	Fishery Indicator	Fishery Indicator	Fishery Indicator
Type	Measure	12	vessels	2019
Type	Measure	90	Persons	2019

Post Harvest

Fish Utilisation

Fresh, Frozen

Markets

Nigeria

Management

Management: Management

Legal Definition

Sea Fisheries Acts of 1971 (Licensing), Regulations of 1971, Sea Fisheries (Fishing) Regulations of 1972, The EEZ Decree of 1978, the Sea fisheries Decree of 1992, Sea Fisheries Regulation 1995

Jurisdictional framework

Management Body/Authority(ies): Federal Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture

Mandate: Management; Regulation; Policies; Protection etc.

Area of Competence: Nigeria

Maritime Area: National Waters.

Management Regime

Management Methods

Conservation, management and compliance measures with focus on Catch control, Effort control, Environment protection - Binding

Gear-related measures
Mesh size, Mandatory use of Turtle Excluder Device (TED)
Vessel-related measures
Access Control : Vessel type, Access Control : Vessel size
Fishing activity-related measures
Licenses, non-trawling zone within 5 nautical miles, mandatory landing of all catch at fishing ports/jetties in Nigeria

Pre LabelFIGIS Cond Link

Source of Information

Information provided by the FCWC Secretariat (FCWC Regional Database) and the Nigeria National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority. March 2021.

FAO. 2021. Report of the Fisheries and Resources Monitoring System (FIRMS) and Fishery Statistics Capacity Development Data Workshop. Virtual Workshop, 26–30 October 2020. Rome.

http://www.fao.org/3/cb3723en/cb3723en.pdf

Bibliography

FAO. Report of the Workshop of National Coordinators of the UNEP/GEF/FAO Project on Reducing the Impact of Tropical Shrimp Trawling Fisheries on Living Marine Resources Through the Adoption of Environmentally Friendly Techniques and Practices. Rome, Italy, 17-19 March 1999. FAO Fisheries Report. No. 605. Rome, FAO. 1999. 46p.

http://www.fao.org/3/X2780E/X2780E00.htm

FAO Yearbook of Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics.