The other fish species of commercial importance, Male Clarias gariepinus contributed 0.25%.

[5] It has been under threat due to the massive pollution from silting following the massive deforestation due to the setting up the refugee camps although the refugees have taken the lead role in the conservation and protection of the lake.

[5]On a rocky escarpment on a hill at Nakivale refugee settlement, a group of workers use hand-held tools to dig a series of holes,lowers in pine-tree seedlings and then covers them up in order to restore back the forest.

The continuous inflow of silt into 25 square kilometre lake Nakivale has turned the water brownish due to mud pollution.

[11] Siltation is caused by poor vegetation management for example tree cutting on Ngarama and Kabingo hills as well as over grazing, bushfires, charcoal burning and lack of terraces.