Ragasa, Catherine and Onoja, Anthony O. and Ansa, Ebinimi and Popoola, Olufemi and Siriwardena, Sunil (2023) Stakeholders’ consultation workshop on the national fisheries and aquaculture policy (2024–2028). p. 27.
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This report summarizes the processes of developing the national fisheries and aquaculture policy in Nigeria and the 2-day consultation workshop with more than 63 stakeholders from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, other government agencies, private sector, industry and producer associations, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, research institutes, universities, and donors. The policy document draft was revised and submitted on December 19, 2023 to the Federal Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (FDFA) and the relevant ministries for their review and inputs. The final policy document draft builds on past policy drafts; incorporates the inputs from the stakeholder consultation; and is revised based on numerous meetings and discussions among the national drafting team and advisory committee (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), WorldFish, and FDFA) for several months in 2023. This draft is a product of the joint thinking, hard work, and perseverance of the drafting team and the advisory committee. This policy document is constrained by the dearth of data on fisheries and aquaculture in Nigeria. National production data used for this document come mainly from FAOSTAT, but other studies also show conflicting data. Data on stock and catch in both industrial marine and artisanal capture fisheries are particularly lacking. The policy drafting process made use of estimates based on available data, which are limited and lacking in many ways. Baseline data were mostly not available, forward-looking scenarios could not be built, and therefore projections and targets could not be constructed for most monitoring and evaluation indicators. It is plea of the drafting team and the advisory committee that policy makers and funders will invest in a data system to enable measurement and progress in the sector
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Stakeholders, Aquaculture Policy, Capture Fisheries, Food Security, Marine Fisheries, Artisanal Fisheries, Small-scale Fisheries, Fisheries Policy, Fish Production |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2025 10:46 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2025 10:46 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/22386 |
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