News:Floating Fish Cage Farming a Solution to Uganda’s Declining Fishery Stocks

This is a policy brief extracted from a study on cage culture and aquaculture park technologies in Uganda conducted by EPRC and National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI). The brief demonstrates that favorable and bullish international fish prices have supported steady foreign exchange earnings to Uganda, amidst declining volumes of fish exports. Despite decline in fish export volumes from 39,000 metric tons in 2005, to 17,600 tons in 2014, export earnings increased from 104 million to 135 million in the same period. To enable Uganda take advantage of this opportunity, innovations that overcome supply constraints will play a critical role. Please download more in the attached brief.