Abstract: This is an exploratory study of the performance of Izon (Ijaw), women in fishing occupation in Ondo State of Nigeria. The objectives of the study are: To evaluate the performance of the rural fisher women in the fishing occupation; to examine the socio-economic factors that affect the performance of the women in their fishing occupation, to determine the contributions of the fishing occupation to the socio-economic life of the Izon (Ijaw) women; to discover the factors that challenge the women in their occupation and to profer solution to problems enunciated. The study reviewed centered on the performance of women in economically productive activities. A social survey method which involved the use of questionnaire was employed to collect data from the randomly selected 250 respondents selected from the wards which the region has been divided. The data collected was appropriately analyzed. The findings revealed among other things that the performance of the women in the fishing was not significantly affected by the factors of age and marital status since the calculated values of chi-square statistic for both variables placed at 303.3 and 212.05, respectively were higher than the tabulated values placed at 18.46 and 16.27, respectively at 0.001 level of significance. Furthermore, the study confirmed that there was no significant relationship between the level of education of respondents and income from fishing occupation since the calculated chi-square statistic value was 212.05 as against the tabulated value of 16.27 at 0.001 level of significance. The study further identified such problems as, land (water) tenure system, poor or crude method of practice, preservation and propagation of fish as well as combination of domestic chores with fishing occupation as major problems facing the women. It was recommended that extension services, formation of cooperative societies in order to access financial and material bans, provision of large storage facilities are some of the ways by which the problems of the fisher women can be solved.