Assessment of the impacts of fishing gears (gillnet selectivity) on fish production, Namasagali sub-county :

Abstract

This study was conducted on three landing sites on communities surrounding river Nile in Namasagali. sub county Kamuli district. The purpose of the study was to assess the impacts of different fishing gears on fish production on the waters of upper Victorian Nile. The specific objectives were to find out the different fishing gears, to quantify the different species caught by the different fishing gears and finally find out. how different fishing gears were being used the fishermen of the three landing site Kamuli district, Uganda. The study employed a descriptive research design and used both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Catch assessment and frame survey data were collected in the identified three sites in Kamuli Waters of the upper Victoria Nile. addition to the secondary data were sued from. Results indicated that at least some fisher used the right' gillnets as compared to illegal ones in Kamuli district. The fact remain that others were using basket traps of gillnets, below the right sizes. Besides that, 60% of the fish sampled were Nile perch as compared to their fishes then followed by the Nile tilapia This implied that if this fishery was well managed by both the fishermen and the fisheries officers who are the technical cadres in this area their of hope for the fisheries resources to rejuvenate the increased production will be observed.