How rogue fishermen beat security on Lake Victoria

Fishermen use informants stationed at different landing sites to alert them when soldiers are near, allowing them to relocate before operations begin.

In January 2017, President Museveni deployed soldiers under the Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU) to combat illegal fishing on Uganda’s water bodies.

At that time, the number of fish processing factories had dropped from 21 to just eight, with the remaining ones struggling due to the depletion of fish stocks caused by illegal fishing on Lake Victoria, the country’s largest freshwater body.

A 2020…