A. PROJECT TITLE
Regional study project of the fishery resources of Lakes Idi Amin and Mobutu Sese Seko.
B. LENGTH OF PROJECT: 5 years
C. HEADQUARTERS
The project's main stations will be at Kasenyi for Lake Mobutu and at a site in Uganda still to be chosen for Lake Idi Amin. Support stations will be Vitshumbi for Lake Idi Amin (Zaire) and a site still to be chosen in Uganda.
D. OBJECTIVES
D1. Development objectives
management of Lake Mobutu and Lake Idi Amin resources;
to guarantee the continuation (durability, survival) of these resources; and
to achieve an increase in national fishery research capabilities.
D2. Immediate objectives
to establish a program of research on lake fishery resources;
to establish an analytical program of surveillance (follow up), managerial and control based on the results of the resource study;
to train staff members competent in these areas; and
to achieve optimal exploitation of Lake resources.
E. JUSTIFICATION OF THE REGIONAL PROJECT
It is believed that the fishery resources of Lake Idi Amin are already being exploited at maximum level and that a danger of overexploitation of stocks exists.
Although overexploitation has not yet been observed on Lake Mobutu, fisheries there are expanding rapidly, creating an urgent need for precise data on potential yield. The difference between the maximum (21,000 t/year) and the maximum (33,000 t/year) estimates is so great that this data is inadequate as a basis for a rational program of resource management. A scientific research project would be of great value to both lakes. The results would provide guidelines for future decisions concerning the development and organization of fishing activities.
F. STRATEGY AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
A project whose objective is to define water conditions as well as evaluate fish stocks and their movements cannot confine its activities to one part of the lake only. This study must be extended to both lakes in their entirety including their tributaries and shores.
Consequently, scientific research must be conducted in close collaboration with regional agencies. There must be permanent contact and teamwork collaboration as a group among all the institutions involved in this study.
For Lake Idi Amin, the institutions are the following:
Zaire: the Department of Land, Environment and Nature Conservation (DAFECN), the Zairian Institute for the Conservation of Nature (IZCN) and the Fisheries Service (SENADEP); and
Uganda: Uganda Institute of Ecology (UIE), Uganda National Parks (UNP), Queen Elizabeth National Park Authorities (QUEENP), Uganda Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Animal Resources (UFD), Uganda Freshwater Fisheries Research Organization (UFFRO).
For Lake Mobutu, the same institutions are concerned, with the exception of IZCN (Zaire) and the UNP and QUEENP (Uganda).
Periodic meetings of these national authorities for the purpose of discussing the organization and management of this study should be arranged within the framework of Regional Fisheries Project RAF/87/099.
Organizing the research outlined in this document should simply be considered a proposal; addressed to the Committee to be formed by the FAO project, for the reason that the mission is familiar with existing conditions in Zaire but not with those in Uganda.
The mission's proposals are the following:
There should be a single project covering both lakes. This would reduce costs (the research boat alone represents a heavy investment) and has the advantage of creating a homogeneous team of experts and staff accustomed to working together. At the end of the first phase, the research boat and other mobile equipment can be transported to the second lake to be studied.
It is our opinion that the project should be executed in two phases, the first at Lake Mobutu where the necessary infrastructures, offices, mechanics workshop, equipment storehouses, etc, created for the Lake Mobutu Project already exist, and the project can begin its activities immediately. The infrastructures and equipment mentioned will probably be integrated with other proposed for the fishery development project (if this project is funded).
The project is expected to operate for 5 years. The first phase will last 3 years, the second, 2 years. The first six months of the first phase will be used for placing orders and fitting out the main project station at Kasenyi and the support station in Uganda. Taking the extensive area of the lake into account, research should be completed within 30 months. Six months before the end of the first phase, the equipment needed for the second phase at Lake Idi Amin should be ordered.
The Lake Idi Amin study should be completed within two years. The headquarters for this second phase of the project will be located in Uganda, and the support station will be established in Vitshumbi
4. Scientific research will center around the following1:
4.1. Limnology
detailed bathymetric analysis;
realization of a map of the shoreline banks;
description of seasonal changes in stratification and interior currents;
description of surface and deep currents as well as of upwellings;
analysis of the balance of nutritional elements in the aquatic mass; and
identification of zones of high productivity and description of their biota.
4.2. Study of the principal commercial species
This research will include:
analysis of the size of the principal commercial species;
identification of the migratory movements of the principal commercial species;
setting catch levels for the Zairian and Uganda fisheries; and
preparation of common regulations and a joint management programme for the two lakeside countries.
1 “Fishery Management Study in the Queen Elizabeth National Park” by I. Dunn; April 1989, p.17
G. PROJECT RESOURCES
G1. Government resources
two senior staff members, one Zairian and one Ugandan, specialists in biology, co-directors of the project;
4 intermediate-level staff members, 2 Zairian and 2 Ugandan, with degrees in biology;
other personnel to be specified when the project is defined in the context of the Regional FAO project; and
sites for the infrastructures and buildings planned for the project.
G2. External resources
Personnel and training
a biologist, specialist in fish stock evaluation and project direction. He/she should have the following profile: high level fishery expert with many years experience in inland fishery stock evaluation. He/she will manage the project, orient and supervise the work of the experts and their national counterparts, prepare the research program and provide training for national (host staff) personnel. He/she must be fluent in French and English. Duration: 5 years.
biologist, specialist in biostatistics. He/she should have the following profile: a high level limnologist with several year's experience in limnology. He/she will assist the director (specialist) to evaluate stocks and to prepare and execute the research programme. He/she will lay the foundations for a resource management programme and provide training for counterpart staff members. He/she must speak both French and English fluently.
Consultants: The project will call upon consultants for specific problems which may arise, as needed.
Training: Four intermediate-level staff members will receive training for a two-year period at a foreign institute or university specializing in hydrobiology. In addition, the project will be equipped to provide on-the-job training.
Administrative support personnel
Four secretarial positions are planned for the duration of the project.
Equipment
Regarding equipment, it should be taken into account that the mission is unfamiliar with the situation existing in Uganda. It is therefore possible that actual costs may be lower than those estimated here:
these estimates must be revised by another study covering both sides of the lake;
the hydrobiology project is considered autonomous. However, its costs may be significantly reduced if the project for institutional strengthening (Lake Idi Amin) and fishery development (Lake Mobutu) are executed (Project Documents 1 and 2). A program integrating all three projects might be considered;
in our calculations we have assumed that most moveable equipment would be transported for use in the second phase of the project; and
we suggest that moveable equipment be divided between the two countries at end of the project.
| Durable equipment (US $) | ||
| 1 | Cheverton type research boat completely equipped, 100 hp diesel motor, sonar, radar, radiotelephone | 400,000 |
| 4 | aluminium boats (for 2 main stations and 2 secondary stations) | 25,000 |
| 2 | 40 hp outboard motors | 10,000 |
| 4 | 25 hp outboard motors | 15,000 |
| 1 | sonar | 6,000 |
| 1 | sonograph | 5,000 |
| 1 | soldering machine | 2,000 |
| 2 | generators (1 for main station, 1 for secondary station) | 40,000 |
| 2 | electric pumps (1 for main station, 1 for secondary station | 10,000 |
| 4 | typewriters | 1,300 |
| other supplies and equipment for both offices | 10,000 | |
| 12 | radio-telephones | 6,000 |
| 6 | airconditioners (4 for main station, 2 for secondary station) | 4,000 |
| 2 | freezers (500 litre capacity) 1 for main station, 1 for secondary station | 8,000 |
| 6 | scales (4 for main station, 2 for secondary station) | 5,000 |
| 1 | hydraulic winch | 10,000 |
| 2 | vehicles 4×4 (pick-ups) and spare parts | 50,000 |
| 2 | Renault4 type vehicles and spare parts | 30,000 |
| meteorology equipment | 3,000 | |
| 3 | computers (2 for main station, 1 for secondary station) | 5,000 |
| equipment for limnological analysis (1 main station, 1 secondary station) | 8,000 | |
| laboratory equipment (1 main station, 1 secondary station) | 8,000 | |
| fishing equipment | 20,000 | |
| furnishings/equipment for 5 lodgings | 50,000 | |
| equipment for mechanical workshop and for minor boat repairs | 30,000 | |
| Infrastructures (US $) | ||
| 4 | offices, dimension: 400 m2 at US $ 100 per m2 | 40,000 |
| 10 | lodgings (4 headquarters × 2 headquarters; and 1 at each of 2 stations) 1,000 m2 at US $ 100 per m2 | 100,000 |
| 2 | fuel stations with 20,000 litre reservoirs headquarters | 40,000 |
| 2 | fuel stations with 10,000 litre reservoirs (stations) | 25,000 |
| 2 | equipment storehouses (headquarters) 200 m2 at US $ 80 per m2 | 16,000 |
| 2 | equipment storehouses (stations) 140 m2 at US $ 80 per m2 | 11,000 |
| 2 | mechanical workshops (1 per headquarters) 160 m2 at US $ 80 per m2 | 13,000 |
| consumable inputs: fuel, oil, gasoline | 370,000 | |
BUDGET FOR INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTION (in US $)
| Total | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | |||||||
| M/H | US $ | M/H | US $ | M/H | US $ | M/H | US $ | M/H | US $ | M/H | US $ | |
| Personnel | ||||||||||||
| Stock evaluation expert | 60 | 448 350 | 12 | 89 670 | 12 | 89 670 | 12 | 89 670 | 12 | 89 670 | 12 | 89 670 |
| Biostatistics expert | 60 | 448 350 | 12 | 89 670 | 12 | 89 670 | 12 | 89 670 | 12 | 89 670 | 12 | 89 670 |
| Consultants | 8 | 96 000 | 3 | 36 000 | 1 | 12 000 | 3 | 36 000 | 1 | 12 000 | ||
| SUB-TOTAL | 992 700 | 179 340 | 215 340 | 191 340 | 215 340 | 191 340 | ||||||
| Official travel | 114 000 | 20 000 | 25 000 | 22 000 | 25 000 | 22 000 | ||||||
| Administrative support | 34 000 | 6 000 | 7 000 | 7 000 | 7 000 | 7 000 | ||||||
| Consumable inputs | 370 000 | 50 000 | 80 000 | 80 000 | 80 000 | 80 000 | ||||||
| Durable equipment | 767 300 | 667 300 | 100 000 | |||||||||
| Infrastructures | 245 000 | 122 000 | 123 000 | |||||||||
| 60 000 | 15 000 | 30 000 | 15 000 | |||||||||
| 44 000 | 10 000 | 8 000 | 8 000 | 10 000 | 8 000 | |||||||
| SUB-TOTAL | 1 634 300 | 875 300 | 135 000 | 147 000 | 360 000 | 117 000 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous (10% of total) | 260 000 | 100 000 | 30 000 | 20 000 | 100 000 | 10 000 | ||||||
| GRAND TOTAL | 2 887 000 | 1 154 640 | 380 340 | 358 340 | 675 340 | 318 340 | ||||||
