Fishing is practiced in South Sudan as a complementary seasonal livelihood strategy by pastoralists when they return to the dry season grazing grounds.
Despite huge potentials, there is lack of support infrastructure, inadequate and inappropriate fishing equipment and difficulty of transportation between production and consumption areas. The fish catch is therefore reduced to meet the domestic and available external markets.
The fishermen use traditional fishing and processing technology which are inefficient and result in high postharvest losses. The fishermen lack organization, skills and means to scale up their operations so as to capture the enormous market opportunities.
There are also challenges of multiple taxes and levies on dried and smoked fish,
There is lack of developed landing sites, cold storage facilities, financing, technical skills, modern value-addition services , quality control and market orientation programs to support the sector.