Green Youth Conservation Uganda seeks $12000 to fund an innovative cage culture tilapia project for the members and the surrounding community; the project will serve 90 people including their families; subsistence fishermen, women and youth groups in Entebbe municipality, teaching them to take advantage of the economic tools and opportunities presented by the water resources surrounding us. The project intends to produce a total of 90,000 Tilapia fish in a period of 12 months.
The traditional fishing on Lake Victoria has been an environmental destructive practice and economically unsustainable as stocks have declined due to over fishing resulting from both international and local demand for tilapia fish. Ecologically, traditional methods are known to be destructive to marine habitats and highly non selective, catching millions of immature fish. The project intends to produce a total of 90,000 Tilapia fish in a period of 12 months with 90 families benefiting from this.
The project shall focus on development of model fish cages for farmer to farmer technology transfer and to provide the trainings and supplies, and this help group members, subsistence fishermen; women and youth groups increase potentially fish farming to meet social, economic and nutritional needs. Cage culture is an aquaculture production system where fish are reared in floating net cages.Fish are placed in the lake to raise and protect them until they are harvested when they reach market size
Aquaculture has proven to be a self-sustaining fish farming initiative specifically designed to enhance food production, produce a nutritional food resource for the alleviation of hunger and malnutrition and encourage community economic sustainability with a marketable product. Project aims to improve Tilapia fishery management through culture cage fish farming that will lead production of 90000 fish per year and 90 house holds then it will be replicated when it sustains itself after one year.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
