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Estuaries and Inshore Waters 9.3.4 FISH

Fish are the dominant vertebrate class and again express the great bio-diversity, bioactivity and biomass of the Niger Delta as compared to temperate waters.

B.S. Moses describes 72 species of saltwater fish in Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Rivers States.

The following 34 species have been documented as being caught in the Inshore waters of the Niger Delta.

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