TY  - JOUR
T1  - Assessment of Current Challenges and Opportunities of Fisheries of South Wollo Lakes, Amahara Region, Ethiopia
AU - Tessema, Assefa AU - Geleta, Kelemework 
JO  - Journal of Fisheries International
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
SP  - 69
EP  - 73
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1817-3381
DO  - jfish.2013.69.73
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jfish.2013.69.73
KW  - Devil
KW  -fishermen
KW  -perception
KW  -lakes
KW  -South Wollo
AB  - Assessment of current challenges and opportunities of South 
  Wollo lakes fisheries was conducted from February to May, 2013. The major objectives 
  of the study were to assess the current challenges and opportunities of fisheries 
  and recommend fishery development and management for sustainable utilization 
  of the 4 lakes found in South Wollo. Structured questionnaires, checklists and 
  PRA were used for generating the data. The data collected were analyzed using 
  SPSS Version 16. Lakes Golbo and Maybar fisheries recently have been stopped 
  due to excessive growth of macrophytes and perception on existence of devil 
  that kills fisherman, respectively. The fishing activities in both lakes, Logo 
  and Ardibo were active urging proper fishery management. The age distribution 
  of the respondents in Lake Logo and Ardibo was found to be not >57 which 
  revealed that most of the fishermen in the 2 lakes are within the productive 
  age (<65 years). In case of literacy level, only 10 and 28.3% in Lake Ardibo 
  and Lego, respectively are illiterate while the majority was found to have at 
  least basic education. With respect to the marital status, the majority of fishermen 
  in Lake Ardibo (80%) were married, most of the Lake Logo’s 
  fishermen (65%) on the other hand were found to be single. This was supposed 
  to have its own share in determining the resource utilization pattern of the 
  2 lakes. In view of their income source while 35% of Lake Ardibo’s 
  fishermen are solely dependent on capture fishery, in case of Lake Logo these 
  were found to be 44%. With respect to their fishing practices, all fishermen 
  of Lake Ardibo use a mesh size of >8 cm unlike that of Lake Logo’s 
  fishermen who use <8 cm mesh size. As true for most part of the country, 
  the most preferred fish species in all lakes was Nile tilapia. But starting 
  from the year 2003, the fishermen of Lakes Lego, Ardibo and Maybar and the local 
  people in South Wollo have started to use common carp. Moreover due to intensive 
  training delivered on common carp dish preparation, recently the fish has good 
  price in Dessie, Kombolcha and Hayq. Concerning the income of fishermen of the 
  lakes, the minimum and maximum income were reported to be 300 and 1800 Birr 
  for Lake Logo and 150 and 1500 for Lake Ardibo. The univarate analysis showed 
  that no statistically significant difference in monthly income from fishing 
  between fishermen of Lake Logo and Ardibo (p>0.05).
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