Kasesea, Uganda| AFP | THE INDEPENDENT | The Fisheries Protection Unit in Kasese district has arrested two suspects for smuggling immature fish. The two were apprehended at a check point along Kikorongo-Kasese road in Lake Katwe Sub County on Friday while smuggling premature fish on a canter truck registration number UBG …
Read More »Shs 2.7Bn Kagwara fish handling facility falls into pieces before use
Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The fish handling facility at Kagwara landing site in Serere district is falling into pieces before being put to use. The Shillings 2.7 billion facility constructed with support from African Development Bank to fund Fisheries Development Project (FDP) in 2009 has been lying idle since …
Read More »Mediterranean diet boosts good bacteria, curbs harmful ones
Paris, France | AFP | Switching in old age from a bland, unvaried diet to a Mediterranean mix of fresh veggies, fruits and fish restores a balance of intestinal bacteria linked to good health, researchers said Tuesday. In a clinical trial with 612 volunteers aged 65 to 79 across five European …
Read More »UPDF Fisheries Unit drops 46 soldiers
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 46 soldiers have been sacked from the UPDF Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU over the last three years Maj. Joseph Ssebukera, the Commandant of the unit on Eastern side of Lake Victoria has revealed. He told journalists at Masese Landing site in Jinja …
Read More »In Spain, how nutrients poisoned one of Europe’s largest saltwater lagoons
Mar Menor, Spain | AFP | “I am in love with this sea. I live for it and I live off it. If they took it away from me, I would die,” says Pedro Martinez-Banos, gazing out across the sparkling waters of Spain’s Mar Menor. A fisherman all his life, this …
Read More »Ghana grapples with illegal fishing as stocks dive
Accra, Ghana | AFP | Fish vendor Mercy Allotey waits at the beachfront in Ghana’s capital Accra for customers to buy the freshest catch brought in by the brightly-coloured dugout canoes plying the coast. But she complains the local fishermen are now netting less and less as a combination of illegal …
Read More »Empty nets as overfishing and climate change sap Lake Malawi
Senga Bay, Malawi | AFP | On the shores of Lake Malawi, a crowd eagerly awaits the arrival of a white and yellow cedarwood boat carrying its haul. The crew of six deliver a single net of chambo, sardine and tiny usipa fish from the boat, just one of 72 vessels …
Read More »Kadaga interests Jewish Americans investors in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has met and asked the visiting Presidents of Major Jewish American Organisations to support Uganda’s agricultural sector. Kadaga urged the investors to invest in the sector considering that Uganda’s economy largely depends on agriculture. The meeting was held …
Read More »Fish maw business now to be regulated
Tough regulation for fish in offing Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWASA | Fish maw business will soon be regulated to minimize exploitation of fish farmers and suppliers. Vincent Sempijja, the agriculture minister told The Independent in an interview that the sale of fish maw has become a lucrative business for …
Read More »Court denies Lwakataka bail
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rally driver Ponsiano Lwakataka who was charged with malicious damage of property in Mukono has today been denied bail at the Mukono Chief Magistrate Court. Court made it clear that the sureties presented were substandard. Lwakataka and John Sekitoleko were this afternoon …
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