date:Apr 11, 2014
The passage of the National Fisheries Commission Bill currently under deliberation at the National Assembly is expected to address the fish deficit in the nation, which is causing abnormal importation of fish into the country.
Godfrey Ezeri, professor of Fish Pathology and Health at the College of Environmental Resources Management at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has disclosed that the passage of the Bill, which was sponsored in 2008, at the Senate by Abubakar Gada,