It is great to read about your first-hand experience - thanks for sharing. Do you find that the seasonality is connected to local customs or certain times of year when people want to eat more fish? Or is the seasonality of market price due to increased production of fish during certain times of year? 

High taxes placed on imported fish is resulting in unprofitable cold rooms, and potentially an increase in illegal trade? (illegal imports don't pay taxes). While taxes are meant to protect local trade, taxes that are too high increase the illegal trade, which ends up hurting local trade... Is this is case in Nigeria?  


C'est genial lire de votre experience - merci de partager. Trouvez-vous que le saisonnalité est connecté à des coutumes locals, ou temps d'année quand des personnes veulent manger plus de poisson? Ou, le saisonnalité de le prix de marché est à cause de l'augmentation de production de poisson pendant certains temps d'année? 

Des taxes qui sont mis en place sur poisson importé résultent des salles froides peu profitable, et pourrait résulter un augmentation du commerce illicit? (Des importations illicit ne paye pas des taxes). Alors que des taxes devraient proteger de commerce local, des taxes que sont trop hautes pourrait augmenter du commerce illicit, quel finalement endommager du commerce illicit... C'est ça le cas au Nigeria? 

Alexandra 

On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 2:01 AM, Babatunde Oreyemi <oreyemibabs@gmail.com> wrote:
I ll suggest you carry out further research on this article.
What is keeping the price of fish down in Nigeria is not about imported fish. The high tarrif placed on imported fish is making many cold rooms the receiver of this imported fish go under.
Am a fish farmer here and I can say two things are making the price go down and they are
1. Season of the year
2. As the cost of production becomes high, people won't have the purchasing means to buy.
Nigeria aquaculture is yet to saturate the market.

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On May 11, 2018 18:56, "Alexandra Pounds via Sarnissa-african-aquaculture" <sarnissa-african-aquaculture@lists.stir.ac.uk> wrote:

This article suggests that while there is a potential for new tilapia and catfish farms in Nigeria, it also suggests that illegal imports are keeping market prices down.

Are illegal imports of tilapia and catfish in Nigeria are preventing Nigerian aquaculture farms from being financially competitive? Should the government prevent this? If so, how?

https://independent.ng/tilapia-farming-expert-guarantees-40-return-on-investment/


Cette article suggére que il y a un potentiel pour d'aquaculture de tilapia et poisson-chat au Nigeria. Il suggére aussi que l'importation illicit de tilapia et poisson-chat préviennent l'augmentation du prix du marché.

Des poissons importé, préviennent-ils des enterprises d'aquaculture au Nigeria d'etre competitif financièrement? Le gouvernement, devraient-ils prevenir ça? Si oui, comme?

https://independent.ng/tilapia-farming-expert-guarantees-40-return-on-investment/




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