DETERMINANTS OF FISHING HARVEST AT LAKE CHAMO, SOUTH-ERN ETHIOPIA

Abstract

The general objective of this study was to investigate the determinant of fishing harvest at Lake Chamo. Specifically, this study investigated the factors affecting of skills, education sta-tus, open access, illegal fishers, adding nutrients for fish, age, mesh net Size and gender at fishing harvest in Lake Chamo. The estimated sample size is 80 as obtained from Yamane (1967:886).The researcher used simple random sampling technique to select the sample population. This is done in order to give equal chance of being selected to all respondents of Lake Chamo. Moreover, random sampling is best technique of sampling to make the sample reliable representative of the whole respondents as they draw without the subjective judgment of the researcher .Demographic and socio-economic analyses as well the factors affecting fishing harvest in the study area were analyzed in detail in the first part of the result and dis-cussions by using descriptive analysis. The second part of the study emphasized on an in-depth analysis of factors that affect the Fishing harvest through econometric analysis of mul-tiple linear regression models. In general, the result of the model revealed that open access and education level were statistically significant and negatively affect at fishing harvest, where as skill of fishing techniques, adding nutrient for fish and mesh net size were found to have a significant and positive affect at fishing harvest. Lastly the result from this survey revealed that adding nutrients for fish and Continues support for organized fishery cooperatives in terms of finance and training are helpful to improve fishing harvest at Lake Chamo.