He earns Shs120m from fish a year

He has been involved in commercial fish farming for more than three decades. He tells Otushabire Tibyangye how he started, what he has learned along the way and the challenges.

Farmers at the subsistence level have been building ponds measuring from 50 to 100 square metres. However with rising market prices for fish and government intervention, there is a quest for profitable production.

And, with the stagnating supply from capture fisheries, farmers are beginning to build more and larger ponds of 1,000 square metres or more. They are also using higher stocking densities especially for catfish.

These developments are driven by commercial interests of farmers with access to land and reasonably large families, which provide labour or who have the ability to harness labour.