In: Aquaculture ISBN: 978 - 1 - 63485 - 563 - 1
Editor: Joanne G. Buchanan © 201 6 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Chapter 6
WHY AQUACULTURE TRIALS HAVE NOT
BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN TANZANIA?
Kitojo Wetengere1, and Aubrey Harris^2
(^1) Centre for Foreign Relations (CFR), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(^2) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
Harare, Zimbabwe
ABSTRACT
Most aquaculture trials in Tanzania have made insignificant
contributions to the community welfare because they did not learn from
the mistakes of the past trials. To avoid repeating the past mistakes, a
study was conducted to “review all aquaculture trials in Tanzania,
objectively concluding why the past aquaculture trials have or have not
been up scaled.” Quantitative and qualitative designs were employed to
collect data from Zanzibar. The study population comprised of milkfish,
crab and sea cucumber farmers, as well as farmers who abandoned
aquaculture. Instruments used for data collection included questionnaire,
group discussion, researchers’ observations and secondary information
sources. The results showed that the aquaculture trials have not been up-
scaled because of: low priority given to the aquaculture sector, targeting
the poorer community, introduction process of projects that killed “self-
help” sprit, the unmet objectives for undertaking aquaculture, the poor
location of aquaculture farms, a lack of availability of quality fingerlings Correspondence e-mail: [email protected].