CANDIDATES’ WEAKNESSES AND SUGGESTED REMEDIES
Candidates were unable to:
- list materials that could be used to capture fish;
- describe the types of capture fisheries;
- list the materials needed for the construction of a gill net;
- state the ways of maintaining a planked canoe;
- name culturable fishery organisms;
- state the management practices in fish seed production;
- state the advantages of culture fisheries;
- state the disadvantages of capture fisheries;
- describe spot feeding and automated feeding;
- state the ways of preventing pesticides from contaminating fish pond water;
- state the differences between sexually mature male and female catfish.
Consequent on the identified weaknesses observable in the candidates’ scripts, the Chief Examiners made the following recommendations:
(i) Only competent graduates of Fisheries should be saddled with the responsibility of teaching the subject in Senior Secondary Schools;
(ii) Fisheries should be taught as a practical oriented subject through laboratory activities, field trips, excursions etc; and
(iii) Adequate facilities and textbooks on Fisheries should be made available to enhance the teaching – learning of Fisheries in Senior Secondary Schools.