Nutrient status of Kyoga basin lakes: a review
The Kyoga basin lakes are situated between longitude 32°05' -33°35'E and latitude 01°05' -01°55'N. They consist of two major lakes (Kyoga and Kwania), two medium sized small lakes of Bisina and Nakuwa and about 50 other small (satellite) lakes. Lake Kwania is relatively narrow, shallow (about 4m), stretch north-southwards and join the western extremity of Lake Kyoga to form lower Victoria Nile. Lake Kyoga is the largest in the basin, with an average depth of about 3.0m. The small lakes lie in the floodplain of the eastern drainage system to east of Lake Kyoga (Twongo 2002). Most of the small lakes seem to have more than one name. The varying names among most of the small lakes were attributed to the different ethnic groups of people living in the areas surrounding the lakes. (Mbabazi 1999). The recent field survey (Aanyu, personal communication 2007) also indicated that some lakes were known by different names and this formed a constraint especially when locating such lakes using the old maps.
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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National Fisheries Resource Research Institute
2007-05
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/34731 |
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