Abstract:
Hook and line is one of the major fishery in the Lake Victoria basin and mainly targets
the Nile perch that is threatened with overexploitation. In the Ugandan waters of the lake,
the Nile perch catches declined from 500,000 t to 300,000 t and at the same time one the fish gear the hook and line effort
increased from 250,000 to 2,70,000 in number between 2000 and 2010