Fish lovers can now enjoy the succulent white flesh of Nile Perch or Tilapia from Lake Victoria as the stocks recovers since the Uganda People's Defence Forces under the Fisheries Protection Unit began policing the water ten months ago to control illegal fishing.
President Yoweri Museveni deployed UPDF on the lake in response to complaints by stakeholders - including fish catchers, processors, traders and government officials - that fish stocks in the lake were declining at an alarming rate, and the once thriving agricultural sub-sector would be no more if this remained un-checked.
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