Ensuring Food Security By Reduction Of Post-Harvest Fish Losses In Small-Scale Fisheries, Nigeria

Autor: Adelaja, Olusumbo Adeolu, Kamaruddin, Roslina. Binti, Chiat, Lee Wen
Rok vydání: 2017
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1188034
Popis: This paper focus on types, causes and how post-harvest fish losses can be reduced in the artisanal fisheries sector to ensure food security and provision of adequate protein for the increasing population. Post-harvest fish loss is a serious threat to the artisanal fisheries sector which occurs from the capture to the final stage of marketing the product to the consumers. When fish undergoes microbiological decay, it leads to quality loss which results to depreciation in the market value. Consumption of such fish has adverse effect on human health; as a result of these, method of assessing post-harvest fish loss and ways of reducing it should be discovered in order to have good quality fish in abundance for the ever growing population and also improved livelihood of fisher folks.
Databáze: OpenAIRE