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

Abstract

This study was undertaken to investigate the effect of socioeconomic factors on fish catch around the Lower OgunRiver 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%) ownedpersonal fishing craft. 18% of the respondents have not had anyformal education, 38.4% had attended primary school, 42.4%had attended secondary school, and 1.2% had attended a tertiaryinstitution. Majority (62%) of the respondents were marriedwhile 31.2 % were single. The result shows that 98.4% of the respondents constitutes male while the remaining 1.6% constitutesfemale. 70.4 % of the respondents fall within the age bracket of15–40 years while the remaining 29.6 % are elderly with agerange of 41-66 years. It was also discovered that there is a significance decline in the abundance of catch in the downstreamcompared to the upstream. There is significant difference betweenthe two stations in all socioeconomic factors evaluated.

Keywords

• Socio-economic
• Fishcatch
• Ogun River.