Without a survey of the actual fish stock, fisheries managers focus on what they get out to ensure sustainability For some time now, fish catchers, processors, traders and government officials ...

Kampala — They catch the fish, pose with them for pictures and then throw them back into the water. Matthias Mugisha spent some time with this strange breed of fishermen THE refreshing cool blue ...

More than 130,000 people who live in 42 fishing villages along Uganda’s shores of Lake Victoria have an HIV-infection rate that is three to four times higher than the national average in this country ...

The Minister for Energy and Mineral Development, Hon. Ruth Nankabirwa has called for setting up of beacons on Lake Victoria that demarcate no-fishing zones. According to Nankabirwa who is a former ...

The President directed that the new landing site committees be composed of representatives of indigenous fishing communities alongside investors operating in the fisheries sector, in a move aimed at ...

A section of leaders from associations of fishing communities has disagreed with the notion that the disbandment of the Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU) is intended to guarantee President ...

Revelations that some Kenyan fishermen are still being held in Uganda a year later for fishing on lake victoria is disturbing. The arbitrary arrests and harassment by the Ugandan authorities has been ...

Yakuti Semakula, a resident of Masese, off Jinja Town sheepishly giggles away at my photographer as he tries to capture him chewing on an evidently unhealthy sugarcane. He chuckles pleading with him ...

KAMPALA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Uganda on Tuesday issued stringent measures on the fishing of small pelagic fish species in all the East African country's water bodies. Hellen Adoa, the minister of state ...

KAMPALA, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Five tiny fishing villages on the shores of Lake Albert shared by Uganda and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are host to China's oil giant, the China National ...