Fisheries
Biodiversity Management Unit: Fisheries Component
Lesotho Highlands Water Project
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has created a Biodiversity Management Unit (BMU) responsible for conservation within the LHWP region. Advance Africa is tasked with skills development and mentoring of the BMU.
Mentoring activities thus far include:
- Subsistence fisheries survey of Katse Dam
- Questionnaire and creel survey methods
- Subsistence fisheries data analysis techniques
- Scientific report writing
- Experimental gillnet surveys of Katse and Mohale Dam
- Gillnet survey methods
- Data analysis techniques including catch per unit effort (CPUE), species composition, index of relative importance (IRI), and modelling gillnet selectivity
- Scientific report writing
- Electrofishing survey of Maloti minnow
- Electrofishing survey methods
- Data analysis including presence/absence and density estimates
- Scientific report writing
The BMU fisheries team is now well-equiped to conduct its own monitoring of the reservoirs and rivers of the Lesotho Highlands.




