By
J. Wadanya
February 1989
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
1. INTRODUCTION :
Kigungu, which is under the administration of Lake Victoria
Entebbe is situated on the south-western side of Entebbe and is
approximately 2.5 miles from the regional office.
The landing was visited at 10.30 a.m on Thursday 19/2/89 in the
company of Mr. Coenen and Mrs. Tumwebaze (both staff of the
project) and of Mr. Adima (Fisheries Field Assistant) from the
Fisheries Regional Office, the person in charge for the
fisheries statistics compilation.
2. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LANDING :
This landing has up to 49 fishing boats but only 35 are actively fishing. Nine of them are powered with outboard engines and these fish in the open waters with 7–12 inch nets. The non-powered boats are fishing for Tilapia in near shore waters. The landing has no transport boats and the landing time of the boats is between 6.00 a.m and 2.00 p.m.
3. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CATCH AND THE STATISTICAL DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM :
The most common species in the catches are Nile perch and
Tilapia niloticus.
The total catch at the landing is variable according to seasons
but approximates 500 to 1000 kgs a day for all boats (for the
period of the visit).
Statistical data collection at the landing is done by 1
Assistant Fisheries Development Officer and 2 Field Assistants.
The system used is one of daily complete enumeration of boats.
For every boat arriving at the landing, the Fisheries Assistant
on duty seperates the catch in the boat by species and records
their number by species. No recording of the weights of the
fish is done due to lack of weighing scales.
The monthly number-estimates of each species are calculated by
summing the daily total numbers on record while the total catch
estimate is the product of all species monthly total numbers
multiplied by a guessed average weight of fish. On this basis
the landing is producing an estimated 20–35 tons of fresh fish
per month. Most of this fresh catch goes to Katwe market while
any smoked fish at the landing goes to Kibuye market, another
Kampala market.
Processed fish arrives at this landing every monday of the week,
mostly from the islands. Processed species landed are Nile
perch, Tilapia and Bagrus. No processed Rastrineobola argentea
is landed. The sampling of the processed fish is done by
recording the number of bundles landed since they generally
contain a standard amount of fish.
The information gathered at the landing is submitted to the Regional Office on a monthly basis together with information on the weather condition during the month, the state of the fishery and problems encountered during that specific period.
Though there has been observed a variable price structure at this landing due to a variable supply of catch, fish size and species composition, little is done to record this information.
