期刊名称：The Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (JSDA)
电子版ISSN：1520-5509
出版年度：2014
卷号：16
期号：3
出版社：Institute of Sustainable Development in Africa
摘要：The capacity of artisanal fisheries to upturn nutritional imbalance, create employment and alleviate poverty depends on the adoption of appropriate management strategies that ensure fishery sustainability to avoid wanton exploitation which prone the renewable resources to intense fishing pressure and depletion. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the determinants of poverty among rural artisanal fishery households in K wara State, Nigeria to suggests plausible measures towards align fishery practices (rural poverty) and sustainable fishery development. Primary data were collected from 306 artisanal fishing ho useholds with the aid of structured questionnaire and interview schedule. Tobit regressio n model was employed to analyze the data. Evidence from regressio n estimates sho wed that eight of the nine variables included in the model had expected a priori expectations and were statistically significant (0.001>p<0.01). Fishermen should be educated to comprehend occupational diversifications, adopt technology capable of improving the life of rural households, and sustain fishing resources within acceptable levels of global resource depletion and environmental pollution.
