Current status of the fish stocks of Lake Victoria (Uganda)

Okaronon, J.O. and Muhoozi, L. and Bassa, S. (1999) Current status of the fish stocks of Lake Victoria (Uganda). In: Report on Fourth FIDAWOG Workshop held at Kisumu, 16 to 20 August 1999. Jinja, Uganda, Lake Victoria Fisheries Research Project, pp. 10-25. (LVFRP Technical Document,7)

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Abstract

A total of 457 hauls were taken during experimental bottom trawl surveys in the Uganda sector of Lake Victoria between November 1997 and June 1999 to estimate composition, distribution and abundance of the major fish species in waters 4-60 m deep. Fifteen fish groups were caught with Nile perch, Lates niloticus (L.), constituting 94% by weight. Haplochromines and L. niloticus occurred in all areas sampled, while Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.) and other tilapiines were restricted to waters 30 m deep or less. The mean trawl catch rate in the zone where artisanal fishermen operate (i.e. in waters less deep than 30 m was 165 kg hr, of which 93.6% comprised L. niloticus. Species diversity and relative abundance decreased with increasing water depth.

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