The hook fishery on Lake Victoria, Uganda
Lake Victoria is very important to the economies of the three East African partner states producing about 500,000 tons of fish annually worth US $ 600m at the landing sites, and contributed about US$ 217m in export in 2001. This Nile perch export in Uganda is presently estimated at 1GOm in Uganda. 30 million people live in the basin and 10% of this population depends on the lake by catching the fish or engaged in fishery related activities. The dynamics of the fishery of Lake Victoria has changed dramatically since the emergency of the Nile perch fishery in the late 1970s and the subsequent evolution of the processing for Nile perch export. The incentive created by the ready market by the fish processing plants has fuelled rapid increase in fishing effort.
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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National Fisheries Resource Research Institute (NaFIRRI)
2006-02
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/33027 |
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