| dc.description.abstract | While several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are highly relevant to fisheries and aquaculture, SDG 14 - Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development is the most relevant for small call fishers who account for over 90% of all people involved in capture fisheries. Several targets of SDG 14 call for specific actions in fisheries, inter alia, effectively regulate harvesting, end overfishing and Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, address fisheries subsidies, increase economic benefits from sustainable management of fisheries and aquaculture, provide access for small-scale fishers to resources and market. This research was carried out to determine how the different by-products are being utilized and as well identify the factors hindering the economic activity along Ggaba landing site, the collected data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and Excel computer package, and Kruskall-Wallis test was done to compare the differences in the quantity production of the various byproducts at 5% level of significance with a critical value of 0.05. Various factors were tested to have a negative significant association with utilization of by-products that included lack of expertise with a correlation of -0.716, lack of appropriate technologies with -0.874, financial constraints with -0.624, lack of markets, -0.559, lack of raw materials with -0.547 and poor management practices with -0.738 correlation coefficient. The results of this study indicated that there were several by-products and these included fish maws, fish frames, skins, scales, viscera, fish pads, and proteins thick liquid. Regulations employed by the Nile Perch processing byproducts section were to a large extent covered by the fisheries regulations, Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) as monitored by KCCA fisheries authorities. From this study, the government together with the local processers should prioritize low-cost potential options for the utilization of potential by-products, These challenges need to be dealt with promptly since the utilization of these by-products would not only improve their profits but can also create more jobs and contribute to economic development of the common people in the business and the country at large. Furthermore this, is in line with the targets of SDG 14. | en_US |
