This study was carried out to assess the livelihood diversification and operational
techniques of the artisanal fisherfolks in the coastal region of Ondo state, Nigeria. Both
secondary and primary data were used. A multistage sampling techniques was used to
select 400 respondents from Ilaje and Ese-Odo LGAs, these LGAs were purposively
selected because they fall within the core coast of the state which is about 180km.
Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the socioeconomic characteristics and
operational techniques
the sufficiency of the survey instruments.
Analysis showed that 82% of the respondents were married, majority of the respondents
(67%) were males while others (33%) were females. The operational techniques for fishing
occupation reveals that 85% of the respondents make use of dugout canoe to carry out
their fishing, 10% of the respondents make use of motorized canoe to carry out their
fishing activities. The fish capturing techniques employed in the study area include active
and passive methods. The married class is the most predominant group in the fishing
business and this result is significant (p<0.01), fishing remains the most engaged main
occupation with male predominant in the bu 2
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246.5 and highly significant (p<0.01) it implies that the level of livelihood diversification is
significant in terms of gender. Returned Cronbach of 0.74 for items with means of 4617.3
and zero variance, implies a great deal of sufficiency. It is therefore recommended that the
artisanal fisher folks should be encouraged to imbibe aquaculture practices in their
community to augument their natural catch hence, increase diversification in livelihood.