Vol. 13 No. 21-32 (2022): Review on needs assessment, design and establishment of self-sustaining fish farms

Across the world, aquaculture has been expressing significance influence on the sustainable health of community through nutrition, livelihood improvement and countries development. This triggered ichthyologist and other researchers to develop possible way of making aquaculture accessible and sustainable. Of various models and techniques for making aquaculture efficient; there is self-sustaining fish farm through integrated system. Therefore, the present review discussed various opinion from studies performed around various geographic areas about need assessment, design and establishment of sustainable fish farms. The required needs, possible design of structure and measures to consider and operational activities to make sure that the system is being more productive, have been discussed in this review. Furthermore, this review provided comparison of aquaculture in different countries of Africa where by Egypt, Uganda and Nigeria comes to the three top of fish producers in Africa respectively. Moreover, it is anticipated that this review will provide insights to the fish farmers, researchers, ichthyologist and policy makers on the possibilities of establishing reliable self-sustaining fish farm.