Fishery
The Nile perch fishery is small-scale only. On Lake Victoria the only (small) trawlers present belong to research institutes. Small-scale fishing boats are propelled mostly by sails and paddles are used on the smallest boats. One to three fishermen use a boat. The fish is caught with mainly gill nets and handlines and sometimes (short) longlines. Those caught by gill net are usually dead when the nets are lifted. The fishes are kept in the boat without protection or ice and taken to landing sites, mostly beaches, where they are weighed and purchased by company buyers using insulated boats or vans with ice, or the fish is bought by local women.
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