Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU has impounded and destroyed illegal fishing gears valued at shillings 447 million. The gears that included monofilament nets and hooks were destroyed at Bugonga landing site, Entebbe municipality on Monday. Entebbe Grade One Magistrate Naomi Sikoya presided over the exercise. She …
Read More »FPU destroys 279,900 pieces of illegal fishing gear
Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU impounded and destroyed 279,900 pieces of illegal fishing gear countrywide in the months of October and November last year. The destroyed fishing gear includes boats, monofilament nets, kokota, solar batteries, bulbs, hooks, and immature fish among others. The 279,900 items were …
Read More »FPU destroys 200 illegal fishing boats on Lake Albert
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU has set ablaze more than 215 illegal fishing boats and 300 monofilament nets impounded from Lake Albert. The boats were destroyed in an operation conducted this week under the command of Lt. Colonel Dick Kaija, the Commandant of the Fisheries Protection …
Read More »Fisheries unit struggles to eradicate monofilament nets
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces – UPDF Fisheries Protection Unit has acknowledged that the fight against the use of monofilament nets on Lake Kyoga is still an uphill task. The use of monofilament nets was banned as part of the measures to prevent depletion …
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