Abstract: The survey was performed in the Calabar Municipality, Calabar South, Odukpani, Akpabio and New Bakassi. Local Governmental Areas (LGAs). Taken as indicator the number of canoes, the largest villages are situated in Akpabio and New Bakassi LGAs and the smallest in Calabar Municipality and Calabar South. The larger villages base economically apart from fishery on oil palm-dominated agriculture. There are villages where each men is fisher and farmer and others were these main professions are performed by different persons. In the larger villages are additionally operating carpenters (boat’s builders), hunters, honey samplers and wood cutters. Nearly all women are engaged as fish traders and several as fish and shrimp processors (smoke-drying) and periwinkle samplers/processors. In the larger villages are three sizes of canoes, small for 2, medium for 7 and large for 10-15 crew members. The small canoes are mainly used for the gillnet fishery in drift system on juvenile bonga (ekpai) in the dry season and on croaker and other demersal and semi-demersal species mainly in the rainy season and are common in all surveyed villages. They are also used for fisheries with trap, cast net and long line. With medium-sized canoes is mainly operated the anchor net for catch of estuarine shrimp and sometimes boat seine for adult bonga (ibat). The large canoes are engaged in the purse seine fishery on ibat in the near-coastal waters. In most of the larger villages, the fishermen leave their villages for up to several weeks and operate in the more productive outer estuary and near-coastal waters, mostly on adult bonga and estuarine shrimp; they produce smoke-dried products in their camps. The mean catch per boat per day is for the small canoes about 5 kg for the medium-sized 15 kg and for the large purse seine canoes more than 100 kg. In Calabar Municipality and Calabar South LGAs, all catches are fresh sold on own small markets at the landing site. In the other, LGAs is common the processing to smoke-dried products. However, by using the mostly existing road connections to Calabar, also selling of fresh fish is performed. By estimation in the large villages, the monthly mean income per fisher family is N 30,000 after paying for repairs of nets and outboard engine. Reports on the daily income for fish processing and trading women included N 0-500; the mean is probably by N 100 or less.