Stakeholder workshop on Lake Victoria basin and LVEMP 1 stock taking
In 1996 the World Bank (WB) and Global Environmental Facility (GEF) inresponse to a proposal limit the three riparian countries around Lake Victoria providedfunding to initiate the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Program in order toaddress concerns about detrimental changes in the lake environment. The most visiblechanges in the lake were dramatic increases in fish yields after the introduction of theNile perch, increased algal abundance and reduced transparency, rapid spreading of theexotic water hyacinth, and reduced populations of endemic and native fishes. Lessvisible, but in some ways more threatening, were the potential for toxic and microbialpollution from agrochemical use, industrial and municipal effluents, toxic algae andincreases in water borne disease incidence as water quality was degraded
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Fisheries Resources Research Institute (FIRRI)
2003
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/33012 |
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| Summary: | In 1996 the World Bank (WB) and Global Environmental Facility (GEF) inresponse to a proposal limit the three riparian countries around Lake Victoria providedfunding to initiate the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Program in order toaddress concerns about detrimental changes in the lake environment. The most visiblechanges in the lake were dramatic increases in fish yields after the introduction of theNile perch, increased algal abundance and reduced transparency, rapid spreading of theexotic water hyacinth, and reduced populations of endemic and native fishes. Lessvisible, but in some ways more threatening, were the potential for toxic and microbialpollution from agrochemical use, industrial and municipal effluents, toxic algae andincreases in water borne disease incidence as water quality was degraded |
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