Hello, welcome to Innovation in Capture Fisheries. This innovation is a climate resilience solution.
– The name we specifically call this solution is Climate Resilient Aquaculture (CRAQua).
– The main ambition of this solution is to impart green skills and techniques to strengthen aquaculture fish production in the Rwenzori. This ambition is informed by what has happened to the Rwenzori capture fish production. We give a two-fold background of that:
- On the one hand, the Rwenzori River Catchment is conducive to agricultural production, more specifically to this project, fish production. The demand for fish, coupled with the declined fish production in lakes, has increased fish pond aquaculture. We currently talk about the Nyamwamba and Nyamugasani river catchment, where an interest is noted among various young people taking up fish pond enterprises as an income-generating activity, including employment of others.
- On the other hand, fish ponds in river catchments have increasingly been threatened by climate-related hazards, specifically floods and landslides. Of course, building fish ponds in flood plains increases their susceptibility to flooding. Moreover, ecological disturbances in the rest of the mountain landscape drain into other river catchments, increasing the chances of siltation and destruction of fish ponds.
As a solution, our intervention has a two-fold objective.
- First, instead of fish pond aquaculture, which is prone to eco-anthropogenic threats, we will train-by-doing in skills to ecologically remodel floodplain wetlands into fish production sites.
- Then secondly, to protect the floodplain wetland from siltation from the hilly parts of the river catchments, we will establish fish production in tanks in those hilly areas. Moreover, we aim to create synergy with agroecological coffee perennial farming in those hilly areas and thus greatly reduce the chances of siltation.
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