Fish Production levels are low compared to demand worldwide. Human population growth and food demand have always been at variance with food production efforts. The result in fisheries has always generally been that most natural water bodies are over fished especially in the Nigerian waters.

In Nigeria, 55% of the citizens rely on fish for their source of protein intake and thus contribute to a demand-supply gap of 1.0 metric ton annually. The natural water bodies are generally subject to over fishing therefore, fish farming or aquaculture have been identified as the most renewable, most cost effective way of meeting up the demand. Fish farming is therefore superior to fish capture in terms of sustainability.

Fish ponds are generally fish enclosure system designed for rearing or growing fish from fingerlings or juvenile to adult. Growing fish ponds from which they cannot escape, allows feeding, breeding, growing and harvesting the fish in a well planned way.