By Daily Monitor
Fishermen at Masese Landing Site on Lake Victoria have accused
their counterparts engaged in cage fish farming of polluting the water body and
now want the authorities to prevail on them.
Cage fish farming is a type of rearing aquatic animals by confining them in
large specific enclosures using nylon nets, sometimes rigged by metallic or
plastic pipes.
Mr Joseph Ojambo, 34, a fisherman from Ntongolo Landing Site in Nyenga
Division, Buikwe District, on Monday said cage fish farmers are polluting the
lake by disposing of their dead fish in the lake, something he attributed to
the type of food they are fed on.
“Some of the fish farmers in Masese are complaining of their fish dying. This
could be as a result of the chemicals used for mixing the fish feeds that needs
to be investigated,” Mr Ojambo said. Read
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