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The Biology and Impact of Neochetina Weevils on Water Hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes in Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya
(2004)
Lake Victoria, like other large lakes in the world, is a shared resource and forms an international boundary between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. It is the second largest fresh water lake in the world with an area of 69,0000 ...
Impact of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms-Laubach, on the fishery of Lake Victoria, Kenya
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)
Due to heavy infestation of water hyacinth in Lake Victoria catches of Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) and
Protopterus aethiopicus (Heckel), which strongly decreased in the 1980s, increased markedly in 1998.
Tilapia catches ...
Comparative study of hatching rates of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus Burchell 1822) eggs on different substrates
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)
The choice of incubation substrate materials is one of the major factors to consider in the production of
African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) fingerlings. There was significant difference between the hatching rates
of ...
Review of the impact of water hyacinth on Lake Victoria: the case of Winam Gulf, Kenya.
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)
Water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, invaded Lake Victoria in 1989 and has had significant social,
economic and environmental impacts, which remain largely unquantified. The biological control
administered by Kenya ...