Organochlorine pesticides are still in use for agricultural purposes and for the control of mosquitoes in the Eastern African region. Atmospheric concentrations of organochlorine pesticides are expected to be higher in ...

The effects of different diets on the growth performance of Oreochromis variabilis (L.) fry (Osteichthyes: Cichlidae) were investigated in a hatchery. The diet trial experiment was conducted in modified 1000 litre circular ...

Lake Victoria basin harbours a variety of aquatic ecosystems mainly referred to as wetlands. These wetlands range from permanent swamps, open water bodies and river systems. The wetlands being a transition ecosystem between ...

One of the major ways to develop policies and guidelines for sustainable use of wetlands is through a better understanding of their traditional uses. This is because traditional management systems are based on indigenous ...

Lake Victoria is the largest tropical lake in the world with a surface area, 68,800 km2 (Bootsma and Hecky 1993). The lake is shared by three countries, with 51% share in Tanzania, 43% in Uganda, and 6% in Kenya. Its land ...

Aquatic ecosystems are of vital importance considering the inter-relationships that exist between these ecosystems and terrestrial ones. However, the physico-chemical and biological characteristics of lake basins such ...

Introduction The Lake Victoria Basin represents a good scenario of environmental problems related to human activities on land. Land degradation in the lake basin is of major concern, not only for the healthy of the lake, ...

Length frequency data collected from commercial landings were used to estimate growth parameters, mortality (Z, F, M), growth performance index (f’) and exploitation rate (E) in O. niloticus from the Nyanza Gulf of Lake ...