ABSTRACT
Fishing with heteroeneous and variant fishing
technologies in Akwa Ibom State without caution
to environmental sustainable fishing techniques
(ESFT) is consequent to decline in catch,
externalities and market failure. The study
collected data from Oron, Ibono-Eket and Ikot
Abasi in fresh water zone of the state using a
multi-stage sampling procedure and analyzed
them using both descriptive, inferential statistic
and econometric tools. The area is predominantly
married (81.4%) fishermen (70.5%) of mean age
of 57.5 years with dugout canoe (65.1%) and
mean fishing distance of 3.3mm. Recommended
mesh size (3.10), CA&SF (3.48), flood plain
fishing (3.09), G/C net fishing (3.36), R&L (3.46)
and avoidiance of dynamite and poison (3.36)
were all were all adopted. The innovators and
early adopters dominate the late adopters and
laggards (2:1) hence, adoption intensity is high
with a fast horizontal and vertical channel of
information diseamination and diffusion of ESFT.
The model has a good fit. Adoption intensity of
innovators and early adopters relative to the base
categorywill likely increase with profit and
extension contact but reduces with
compaticability of the techniques, and extension
effectiveness. It recommends that extension
education and effectiveness on ESFT packages
will ensure higher return and balanced ecosystem
in the area.
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