Biomass and distribution of commercially important fish species in lake Victoria (Uganda), their exploitation and management
Until the 1970s, Lake Victoria had a multi-species fishery dominated by the tilapiine and haplochromine cichlids. There were important subsidiary fisheries for more than 20 genera of non-cichlid fishes , including catfishes (Bagrus docmak, Clarias gariepinus, Synodontis spp and Schilbe intermedius), the lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus and Labeo victorianus) & Cordone 1974). Stocks of most of these species declined and others disappeared following the introduction of four tilapiines (Oreochromis niloticus, Oreochromis leucostictus, Tilapia rendalli and Tilapia zillil) and Nile perch (Lates niloticus) during the 1950s. Since then the commercial fishery in the Uganda portion of Lake Victoria has been dominated by the Nile perch , Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and the native cyprinid species, Rastrineobola argentea (Mukene).
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/34820 |
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