• Fishermen are encouraged to form co-operatives so as to bargain for loans from financial institutions like FINCA, SERUDEF, and purchase preservation facilities and get managerial skills. Such institutions have provided loans to women groups at Lambu, Bukakata and Kasenyi for buying modern fishing gear.
• There has been a search for the fish markets from abroad and fish processing factories like Hwang Sung have increased on the quality of fish and fish products hence can compete favourably on the world market.
• There has been improvement on both preservation and transport facilities like refrigerated trucks of Ngege limited have helped to reach fish on market and for processing while still fresh. Also roads like Kampala-Ggaba, Kampala-Nakasongola-Lwampanga were tarmaced to access fisheries on L. Victoria and Kyoga.
• The government has tried to carryout training and research into the fisheries so as to maximize on fish production and reduce over fishing. This has been done on fish landing sites of L. Victoria like Lambu, Masese and Kasenyi which has reduced on overfishing.
• There is still a need to restock the over fished grounds like L. Albert and Kyoga by introducing new valuable fish species and protecting them from fish predators. This was done on L. Victoria where Nile perch was introduced.
• Strict laws have been put in place to check on indiscriminate fishing using beach seining and poisoning especially on L. Victoria fishing sites of Golo, Nakiwogo, etc.
• There has been treatment of industrial wastes before dumping into lakes to check on pollution which endangers fish life. Here the government has ensured that Nile breweries in Jinja and Uganda breweries in Luzira treat their wastes before dumping into L. Victoria.
• There has been a fight against the water hyacinth by individual fishermen and companies such as Uganda fishing co-operative union limited (UFCU) using machnes. This has helped to increase on oxygen and light in waters of L. Kyoga thus fish growth.
• Standard gill net size of 125mm has been recommended for use in most fishing grounds in Uganda especially at lwampanga and Nabyeso on L. Kyoga and Gaba and Majanji on L. Victoria. Also regular patrols are under taken on the same lakes by BMU to control pirates, under nets and fish poisoning.
• Creating of conducive political atmosphere by UPDF and peace talks. This has improved on fishing activities on L. Albert and Edward.
• Fish farming has been started in Uganda especially in Mukono and Kajjansi-Wakiso which has increased on fish production.

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