7. Discussion and conclusions

Uganda has significant potential for development of a commercial aquaculture industry. However, despite the policy intention and the obvious physical potential, there are few examples of profitable aquaculture businesses in Uganda. The technical and financial feasibility study for establishing Aquaculture Parks in Uganda indicates that Aquaculture Parks can result into sustainable economic and social benefits.

Indications are that the cage culture based Aquaculture Parks would have higher profitability, faster establishment time and a faster payback period for infrastructure than pond based Aquaculture Parks. Consequently, the government of Uganda is considering establishing pilots.
The use of baseline information will be important to guide and monitor these developments. Undertaking Strategic Environmental Assessments of potential zones that include selected sites for this at this stage would be beneficial as they would ideally provide the information to guide development based upon ecosystem constraints. Table 14 gives a summary of the status of zoning in Uganda. In this regard, the strengths and weaknesses for the development of Aquaculture Parks in Uganda are summarized in Table 15.

 

 

Table 14. Summary Uganda case study.

Table 14. Continued

Table 14. Continued

Table 15. The strengths and weaknesses for the development of Aquaculture Parks in Uganda.