By Editorial,
The Fisheries Protection Unit has blamed the persistent incursion of illegal fishing habits on the limited number of personnel deployed to fight the practices at the different fishing grounds across the country.
In 2017, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni created the Fisheries protection unit, as a branch of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF, which he accordingly deployed to combat illegal fishing practices in a bid to reawaken the economic viability of the fisheries sector.
Despite their presence and operations conducted at the different landing sites and fishing villages, the FPU soldiers are struggling to stamp out illegal fishing practices causing huge losses.
Lt. Reuben Ndifula, Fisheries Protection Unit Spokesperson attributes the persistent trend of illegal fishing habits to lack of enough manpower required to effectively subdue the offenders. Lt. Reuben speaking…
Although Ndifula does not give numbers of Fisheries Protection Unit personnel, he says the available numbers can hardly watch over all the landing sites and consistently conduct operations. END.