{"id":3988,"date":"2019-07-24T07:44:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"fish-farmers-accused-of-polluting-l-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/24\/fish-farmers-accused-of-polluting-l-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Farmers Accused Of Polluting L. Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Daily Monitor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fishermen at Masese Landing Site on Lake Victoria have accused\ntheir counterparts engaged in cage fish farming of polluting the water body and\nnow want the authorities to prevail on them.<br>\nCage fish farming is a type of rearing aquatic animals by confining them in\nlarge specific enclosures using nylon nets, sometimes rigged by metallic or\nplastic pipes.<br>\nMr Joseph Ojambo, 34, a fisherman from Ntongolo Landing Site in Nyenga\nDivision, Buikwe District, on Monday said cage fish farmers are polluting the\nlake by disposing of their dead fish in the lake, something he attributed to\nthe type of food they are fed on.<br>\n\u201cSome of the fish farmers in Masese are complaining of their fish dying. This\ncould be as a result of the chemicals used for mixing the fish feeds that needs\nto be investigated,\u201d Mr Ojambo said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/News\/National\/fishing-pollution-Lake-Victoria-Masese-Landing-Site\/688334-5207838-6hm203z\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Monitor Fishermen at Masese Landing Site on Lake Victoria have accused their counterparts engaged in cage fish farming of polluting the water body and now want the authorities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}