Government to register Lake Albert fishers

Teenagers prepare fish nets at Lake Albert's Kaiso landing site in Buseruka Sub-county, Hoima District.

All fishers operating from Lake Albert will have to be registered in a move aimed to regulate illegal fishing activities on the water body, reveals State Minister for Fisheries, Ms Hellen Adoa.

The minister says the decision to register all fishers was derived from a meeting that sat on 23 last month at Kajjansi Aquaculture Research Station between officials from the ministry and Members of Parliament from fishing communities.

Ms Adoa adds that registration of fishers is to enable government to effectively plan for and support them adding that the exercise under the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Industry will be done on all major water bodies in Uganda for their conservation.

She instructs all District Fisheries Officers to ensure that all fishers in the districts are registered and lists be verified by the District Taskforce composed of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Local Council (LC) 5, District Fisheries Officer (DFO) and the Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU) sector commander. 

“The fishers to be registered should cover all the major water bodies to start with Victoria, Kyoga, Albert, Edward, George, Victoria Nile and Albert Nile. 

In 2018, government through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, issued a directive to register all boat owners in the country, upon meeting the set standards in a move aimed at regulating illegal fishing activities and conserving Uganda’s water bodies

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