Fish drying is an age long practice across the world. It is one of the methods of processing fish. Drying is the removal of water from fish. Normally the term 'drying' implies the removal of water by evaporation but water can be removed by other methods: for example, the action of salt and the application of pressure will remove water from fish. Since water is essential for the activity of all living organisms its removal will slow down, or stop, microbiological or autolytic activity and can thus be used as a method of preservation. (Clucas, 1982) In traditional method of preserving fish, the action of the sun and wind is used to effect evaporative drying. In recent times, smoking kilns and artificial dryers are used to obtain product of high quality. According to Sablani et al (2002), solar drying produced better quality dried fish compared to that of sun drying due to reduction in insect infestation and other contaminants. Traditionally, fish is not filleted before smoking, but large fish (e.g. catfish) is normally cut into portions. The choice of whether fish will be hot-smoked or smoked-dry depends on the type of fish to be smoked and how long the product is going to be stored. Results from previous studies have shown that the hot smoked process takes about 1 -3 hours and yields a product with about 35 - 45 % moisture content, but with a limited shelf-life of 1 - 3 days at ambient temperatures. The smoke-dry process takes about 10 - 18 hours, and sometimes 3 – 4 days and yields fish of 10 - 15% moisture content, sometimes even below 10% with a shelf-life of 3 - 9 months when stored properly (Jallow 1995).