Challenges of Cat Fish Farming in Nigeria It is not news that 1kg of cat fish harvested in China frozen and transported to Nigeria still sell below $1:50! Well you may say that farmers in china are exposed to perhaps superior technology but what can you say of farmers in Gambia who sell same 1kg of cat fish for less than $2:00 as against about $2:5 to $3:00 same 1kg sales by Nigeria farmers on the average! Well if the Nigeria farmer is going to sell to Nigerians alone that may not be too much problem but Nigeria cat fish farmers must never abandon the international market in fact the ultimate aim of the Nigeria cat fish farmer is to export either frozen fish or processed dried fish either filleted or not. That brings us to what the government and the fish farmers must do to reposition the fortunes of the Nigeria cat fish farmers. It is imperative the government in particular the ministry of agriculture must look into the cost of the major cat fish farming impute; the cat fish food! Cat fish food is too high as such the ministry of agriculture and the research institutes must look into the production of fish food and ensure that its cost is eventually reduced in addition to free fingerings to farmers. In the alternative the government must consider seriously subsidizing the cat fish food for the cat fish farmers. This is doable and must be tackled with all zeal to move our cat farmers forward. On the part of the Nigeria cat fish farmers they must get as much information as possible about cat fish but they must endeavour to employ available technologies to reduce cost of bringing up the fish. In particular, the technology of using bottle oxygen to supplement oxygen for the cat fish. Though the raw oxygen cannot be assimilated by the fish but when it is pumped into water and it bubbles it turns the raw oxygen into a form that the cat fish can easily assimilate. This cannot be under estimated because this singular use of oxygen can reduce turnaround time of your cat fish by almost 50%! Now look at it this way if oxygen reduces turnaround time of your cat fish it implies that you have also succeeded in reducing the amount spent on feeding by 50% and that will eventually bring down the cost of final product by a considerable percentage! The possibility of the combination of government intervention and use of oxygen by farmers will definitely result in strategic reduction of price of cat fish in Nigeria perhaps below $2! With this the possibility of Nigeria cat fish farmers breaking into the export market will be guaranteed! IGWEGBE LAWRENCE