Distribution of endangered native fish fauna and their conservation in Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria in East Africa, supports socio-economicallyimportant fisheries for more than 30 million inhabitants inthe lake basin. The lake had until the 1970's a diverse fish assemblage dominated by haplochromines species whichformed at least 83% of the fish biomass (Kudhongania &Cordone 1974). The more than 500 haplochrominespecies in Lake Victoria, over 99% of them endemic,exploited virtually all the food sources in the lake (Witte and van Oijen 1990).Each species had its own unique combination of food and habitat preference (Goldschmidt et al., 1990).
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| Format: | book_section biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI)
2004
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/35197 |
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