Fishery Supply Chain Process in Tanzania, A case of Ferry Market in Dar es Salaam

Abstract

This paper provides an analysis of fishery supply chain at Ferry Market in Dar es Salaam Tanzania. It specifically reveals actors involve in the fishery supply chain at the Ferry Market; the major activities undertaken by each fishery supply chain actor; disclosing the challenges overwhelming actors in the very fishery supply chain; and eventually indicates ways in which actors in the same supply chain employ to cope with the challenges. This study was an exploratory in its design and collected and analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data. The study used a critical purposive sampling technique to get respondents whose size was 90. Data were collected using interviews, observation, and focus group discussions. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics using both SPSS v. 20 and Microsoft Excel data analysis packages. Fishermen, agents, wholesalers, retailers, and the customers were the actors revealed to exist in the ferry market fishery supply chain. The activities of each actor in the very fishery supply chain have also been identified, as well as the challenges overwhelming them which included power outages at the ferry market; influx of government taxes and levies; and poor management of the market. Eventually, the study has recommended a number of concerns to enhance fishery supply chain at the area such as, the development of capacity building programs by to empower fishery supply chain actors; and reconsideration of modalities used by the government to charge different taxes to the actors.