By George Emuron
BUKEDEA
The Fisheries Surveillance and Monitoring Unit with the assistance of Uganda Police has today 6th June 2022 carried out an impromptu operation against Illegal Fish trade in Bukedea Weekly Market.
In the operation, police impounded two trucks transporting illegal fish to Bukedea weekly cattle market in Bukedea district.
The operation was spearheaded by the National Fisheries Coordinator, Surveillance and Monitoring Unit, Mwetegya Zacchaeus.
According to Mwetegya, the impounded trucks are Toyota UBH 255Z and FUSO UBF 109J and are currently all parked at Bukedea Central Police Station.
“We are in operation today in Bukedea district and we have arrested two trucks, one carrying million (also known as Mukene) fish and the other carrying premature fish, according to law premature fish is not supposed to be sold,” said Mwetegya.
Mwetegya, also added that besides premature fish, fish sellers are expected to have fish trading licenses and transport licenses.
“Among the arrested victims, most of them do not have transport licenses, health certificates among others,” Mwetegya added.
By the time of filing this story, arrested traders were at Bukedea central police station to record their statements while the trucks together with illegal fish were parked at Bukedea Central Police Station.
