Despite local measures to combat pollution and overfishing, stocks of the once bountiful Nile perch have fallen by at least three-quarters.
On the main roundabout in Mwanza, Tanzania’s second most populous city, there stands a large grey statue. The monument doesn’t commemorate a great post-independence leader, nor a European explorer who – after years of searching for the source of the Nile – alighted on the great lake on which Mwanza sits, but a fish.
With good reason. Fishing is Mwanza’s lifeblood and, for the past 40 years, the Nile perch, a strong, fast-swimming predator that can…
Source: All Africa
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