Browsing: EAC Lake Victoria Basin Commission

• Lake Victoria biodiversity is been destroyed by overfishing
• Researchers advice set up of common regulations among EAC states
• Due to overfishing, stock of commonest fish is falling drastically

Overfishing is depleting fish in Lake Victoria with all three countries—Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania—that surround the massive fresh water body reporting a steady decline in output. On the Ugandan side, it is reported that fisheries that mushroomed around the lake region are shutting down at an alarming rate.

“More than ten factories around the lake have closed and the remaining 25 are operating below capacity,” reported Jinja, a Uganda based inter-governmental organization.

On the Tanzanian side, the Department of Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) has conducted several studies on the problem and the findings are pretty grim.

“The depletion of stock in Lake Victoria is part of a similar problem occurring globally with fish stocks being depleted. When …