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Email: drpnatarajan123@gmail.com; Phone: +251-969-454307

Bibliography of Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries and
Aquaculture in Ethiopia

Girma Tilahun1, Natarajan, P1*, Abebe Getahun2 and Tsegay Teame3

1Department of Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hawassa University
2Department of Zoological Sciences, Addis Ababa University
3Department of Biology, Ambo University, Ethiopia

KEYWORDS:

Aquaculture;

Aquatic Science;

Bibliography ;

Fisheries

PREFACE

This Bibliography of Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries and Aquaculture is prepared with the
intention of providing  opportunity for different users to easily search for references that
concentrate  on Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries and Aquaculture (ASFA). It is a collection of
both grey literatures and scientific articles published in scientific journals. The grey
literatures include papers presented in conferences, symposia and workshops, PhD
dissertations and MSc theses of various national and international universities submitted
as academic requirement for graduation. It should be noted that there are many more
monographs of these types that could be found mainly in different universities in Ethiopia
and not included in this bibliography. Moreover, the scientific papers published in
Journals and included in this bibliography should be checked for reputability. As the
bibliography contains grey literatures and published papers it can serve as source of
relevant information and data useful for meta analysis on key topics/issues of ASFA. It
will also help the scientific community to enhance their teaching, research and extension
activities. Moreover, the long list of references included in the bibliography shows the
immense contribution of prominent researchers that promoted, not only their carrier, but
also their profession in the aforementioned three specialized fields. Since the Bibliography
is a collection of research reports taken from different sources, there may be lack of
consistency while writing the references. For instance Ethiopian authors include full father
name while writing most of the references, however, abbreviated father name is included
whenever the original paper does not have full father name. Finally it should be noted that
this bibliography on ASFA is brought out for the first time in Ethiopia, and we are
confident that it will be updated in due course through contributions and feedback from
users and researchers in the field.

INTRODUCTION

As human population is steadily expanding and
is expected to increase from the current 7+
billion to 14 billion by 2080, the demand for
food will be concurrently increasing.

Agriculture is the main food production sector
and more than 85% of the people from
developing nations, like Ethiopia, depend on
agriculture for livelihood. However, agriculture
production alone cannot be reliable due to

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several factors and this warrants the search for
additional food production sectors. It is in this
context, fisheries and aquaculture have been
identified as important additional food
production sectors for enhancing the livelihood
status of rural people and improve the local and
national economy. Countries all over the world
are designing and developing new strategies to
increase food production through fisheries and
aquaculture. The search for little known fishing
grounds through modern fish finders, increased
number of crafts, gears and manpower have
played major role for the increased capture
fisheries production, and unsustainable
production has also been the factor responsible
for stagnating fish production in wild waters.
This in turn resulted in the emergence of
aquaculture.

It is a known fact that aquaculture provides
food, income and employment and livelihood
for millions of rural people all over the world. In
many countries, fish farming is a very important
activity. In recent years aquaculture has made
significant strides owing to the advancement of
science and technology and as a result
aquaculture production has increased many
folds. Aquaculture production which was just
one million tons in 1950 has increased to 60
million tons in 2010 and reached 81.1 million
tons of aquatic animals 32.4 million tons of
aquatic algae and 26000 tons of ornamental
seashells and pearls in 2020 To expand
aquaculture, efforts are now being made to
apply diversified aquaculture technologies and
system and species diversification. Several
freshwater, brackish water and marine fish
species have been successfully hatchery bread
and grown under diversified aquaculture
systems.

To successfully organize research and
development in aquatic sciences, fisheries and
aquaculture, it is necessary to have knowledge
on the work so far carried out on the subject in
questions which would pave way for developing
and designing new areas of research that would
ultimately improve the production potential to
ensure food security both quality and quantity.
Realizing this fact, several countries have
published scientific bibliographies in the subject
as a measure to provide information and to
search gap areas for advanced research. From a
review of literature it is seen that, most such
bibliographies are confined to the works carried
out in countries where fisheries and aquaculture
has made significant progress. In Ethiopia,
aquatic sciences, fisheries and aquaculture is
developing rapidly taking advantage of the rich
water resources in the form of large lakes,
rivers, reservoirs and small water bodies. It is
also an imperative need that research and
development must progress further, so that the
rich water resources available in the country can
be better utilized to enhance local and national
economy and to improve the livelihood status of
the rural farmers. Furthermore, the ecological
health and integrity of the Ethiopian water
bodies should also be studied to ensure
sustainability of the ecosystem services.

We sincerely hope that the present bibliography
on aquatic sciences, fisheries and aquaculture
will help students and researchers to identify
and concentrate more on gap areas of research
in these areas. The current effort seems to be the
first bibliography on aquatic sciences, fisheries
and aquaculture in the country. It includes more
than 1250 papers published in scientific
journals, book of abstracts, seminar/conference
proceedings, technical bulletins and reports,
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journals have been listed according to the world
list of scientific periodicals. The bibliography is
not claimed to be complete and the scope of the
bibliography has been limited to the works
carried out in Ethiopia.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The cooperation of College of Natural and
Computational Sciences of the Hawassa
University is fully acknowledged for the
immense contribution made to the successes of
this work.

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Aga Abebe, Natarajan, P. and Abebe Getahun 2018.
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Agumassie Tesfahun and Mathewos Temesgen
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Agumassie Tesfahun, Elias Dadebo and Temesgen
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Agumassie Tesfahun 2019. Breeding seasons of some
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Ahrens, L., Habiba Gashaw, , Sjoholm, M., Gebrehiwot,
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