Akintola, Shehu Latunji (2024) Blue justice in Small-scale fisheries in Badagry Creek fisheries. p. 6.
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Badagry Creek water body was named in recognition of the importance to the historical, religious, social and economic development of the town of Badagry. There are significant historical, anthropological and archaeological evidence to suggest that Badagry has been populated at least from the Late Stone Age [1]. The portion situated in Lagos State, Nigeria, is endowed with a lagoon system, deltaic distributaries, floodplains and mangrove swamps. Also, it is directly connected with Nigeria's 960 km long coastline bordering the Atlantic Ocean in the Gulf of Guinea, a maritime area of 46,500 km2 with a depth of up to 50m and an Exclusive Economic Zone of 210,900 km2.The number of full-time fishers is on the decline as there are many parttime fishers combining fishing work with alternate livelihoods: fishing/ farming, fishing/transportation and fishing/trading in meeting financial requirements for investment, food consumption, education, health and other family needs. The fishers exhibit strong social network behaviour within and across the various subgroups. Knowledge and information are shared and regarded as important individual or social assets but not communicated with an intruder or a new entrant. Social capital remains a strong factor and is based on family linkages, which are spawned by intermarriages across the various ethnic subgroups. Increasingly, social relationship is moving from being defined by blood ties to ethnic folk and now to a socio-economic community of fishers (with fishing as the primary factor for association). In other words, the basis for socialization is more gradually being defined on the basis of interest: fishing activities. However, fishers may sharply be divided against themselves at the point of fishing rights
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Small-scale Fisheries, Badagry Creek, Social Development, Anthropology, Economic Development, Livelihoods, Fishing Rights, Fishing Grounds, Fishing Communities |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2025 08:00 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2025 08:00 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/21503 |
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