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Briefly discuss fish farming in Uganda.

      

Briefly discuss fish farming in Uganda.

  

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Martin
- Inland fishing grounds include lakes Victoria, Kyoga, Albert, George, Edward, Katwe and in rivers Nile, Kagera, Kafu, Semliki and Katonga.

- Fishing industry has been interrupted by a long civil strife in the country reducing it to a subsistence economy.

- L.Victoria is the main fishing ground.

- 46 % is in Uganda.

- Many fishermen own motorised boats enabling them to travel deep into the lake and catch a lot of fish.

- Numerous highlands provide anchoring and resting places for fishermen.

- The fishermen sell their fish to co-operatives which organise processing and marketing.

- The dense population around such as in major towns of Entebbe, Kampala and Njinja provide a ready market for fish.

- Fish is also dried and sold in other parts of Uganda.

- Fish is popular as a diet of majority of Ugandans.

- There are fish processing factories in Njinja where fish is filleted
marto answered the question on March 28, 2019 at 05:28


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