National report of the frame survey 2012 on the Uganda side of Lake Victoria Item Type monograph Publisher Department of Fisheries Resources Download date 29/09/2021 18:58:51 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/35352 THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES RESOURCES (DFR) ENTEBBE, UGANDA. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL INDUSTRY AND FISHERIES NATIONAL REPORT OF THE FRAME SURVEY 2012 ON THE UGANDA SIDE OF LAKE VICTORIA PREPARED BY THE FRAME SURVEY NATIONAL WORKING GROUP November 2012 OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES RESOURCES P.O. BOX 4, ENTEBBE, UGANDA. TELEPHONE: 256-041-320578/320563/322026/322027 FAX: 256-041-320496 : i TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS.................................................................................................... ii LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................. iii LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................... iv LIST OF APPENDICES ..................................................................................................... v LIST OF ACRONYMS ..................................................................................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................................ vii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................. viii 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ...................................................................................................... 1 1.2. Objectives of the Frame Surveys ............................................................................. 2 1.3. Key Questions .......................................................................................................... 2 1.4. Expected Outputs ..................................................................................................... 2 2. METHODOLOGY.......................................................................................................... 3 2.1. Preparation for the Frame Survey .................................................................... 3 2.2. Conducting the Frame Survey ................................................................................. 4 2.3. Data Collection ........................................................................................................ 4 2.4. Data entry, storage, analysis and reporting .............................................................. 5 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ..................................................................................... 5 3.1 Landing Sites........................................................................................................... 12 3.2 Facilities and infrastructure at the fish landing sites............................................... 12 3.2.1 Primary schools.............................................................................................. 12 3.2.2 Bandas (fish sheds) ........................................................................................ 13 3.2.3 Cold rooms ..................................................................................................... 13 3.2.4 Electricity ....................................................................................................... 14 3.2.5 Toilet facilities ............................................................................................... 14 3.2.6 Portable water ................................................................................................ 14 3.2.7 All weather roads ........................................................................................... 15 3.2.8 Other facilities................................................................................................ 15 3.3 Fishers ............................................................................................................ 15 3.4. Fishing Crafts ......................................................................................................... 17 ii 3.4.1 Number of fishing crafts ................................................................................ 17 3.4.2 Number of fishing crafts by craft type ........................................................... 18 3.4.3 Mode of Propulsion of Fishing Crafts ........................................................... 19 3.4.4 The target fish species by different types of fishing crafts ............................ 19 3.4.5 The target fish species of crafts using different modes of propulsion ........... 21 3.5 Fishing gears .................................................................................................. 21 3.5.1 Gillnets ........................................................................................................... 21 3.5.2Illegal Gear sizes ....................................................................................................... 24 3.5.3 Hooks ............................................................................................................. 25 3.5.4 Beach seines ................................................................................................... 27 3.5.5 Monofilament gillnets .................................................................................... 28 3.5.6 Small seines.................................................................................................... 28 3.5.7 Scoop nets ...................................................................................................... 28 3.5.8 Lift nets .......................................................................................................... 28 3.5.9 Traps............................................................................................................... 29 3.5.10 Cast nets ......................................................................................................... 29 4. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ....................................................... 29 5.REFERENCES .............................................................................................................. 32 6. APPENDICES .............................................................................................................. 33 LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Summary of Frame Survey 2012 results in the Uganda side of Lake Victoria presented by riparian districts ......................................................................6 Table 2. Trend of fishery variables in the bi-annual Frame Surveys for the Uganda side of Lake Victoria (2000-2012)...........................................................................10 Table 3: Summary of Crafts by Type in 2012 .................................................................. 19 Table 4: Summary of fishing crafts by propulsion on the Ugandan side of Lake Victoria in 2012 .......................................................................................................19 Table 5: The number of fishing crafts by type targeting different fish species in the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2012 .............................................................................. 20 Table 6:Summary of fishing crafts by target species on the Ugandan side of Lake Victoria in 2012………………………………………………………………………….20 iii Table 7: The number of crafts by mode of propulsion targeting different fish species in the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2012 ...........................................................21 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Percentage of landing sites with a primary school within 2 km distance Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2010 by district. .................................................13 Figure 2. Percentage of landing sites with toilet facilities in the riparian districts ...........14 of the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2008 and 2012. ....................................................14 Figure 3: The number of fishers on the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2000 to 2012 .. 15 Figure 4: The distribution of fishers in the districts sharing the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2012. ............................................................................................................... 16 Figure 5: The distribution of landing sites in the districts sharing the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2012 ................................................................................................................ 17 Figure 6: Number of fishing crafts from 2000 to 2012 on the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2012. ............................................................................................................... 17 Figure 7: The distribution of fishing crafts in the districts sharing the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2012. ...................................................................................................... 18 Figure 8. The number of gillnets in the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2000 to 2012. 22 Figure 9. The number of gillnets by mesh size in the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 1990, and biannual Frame surveys in 2000 to 2012. .........................................24 Figure 10. Number of illegal gillnets mesh sizes by district on the Uganda side of Lake Victoria in 2012. ...........................................................................................25