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Briefly discuss fish farming in Lake Victoria

      

Briefly discuss fish farming in Lake Victoria.

  

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Martin
- About 49% of Lake Victoria is in Tanzania.

- There are many fishermen who use modern techniques and equipment.

- Fishing boats are large and carry large stocks of fish which enables fishermen to travel deep into the lake where there is more fish.

- The neighborhood of the lake is densely populated with large towns as Bukoba, Mwanza and Musoma which provide a ready market and processing facilities for the fish.

- Lack of well developed transport limits the marketing of fish to the interior towns.

- L.Tanganyika deep and is the richest in the region in fish.

- Fishing has been an old tradition of the people living around the lake.

- The main type of fish caught is dagaa usually caught at night when attracted by light using special nets with small meshes.

- The factory at Kigoma preserves and processes fish for sale to other parts of the country while some of the fish is smoked or dried and exported to Zambia.

- Fishing is concentrated along the shore because rough storms discourage fishermen from going far into the lake.

- Sparse population around the lake doesn't offer a ready market for fish but the large surplus is transported by rail to other parts of the country.

- Rukwa’s biggest problem is fluctuation of water levels which affect survival of fish.

- A section of L. Malawi is in Tanzania enabling Tanzanian fishermen to catch a lot of fish which is dried and sold in the southern districts of Mbeya and Songea.

marto answered the question on March 28, 2019 at 05:26


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