Lake Victoria: Overview of research needs and the way forward

C Nyamweya, TJ Lawrence, MZ Ajode, S Smith… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over 42 million people rely on Lake Victoria as their primary source of food, employment,
and clean drinking water. The lake's fisheries have produced around one million tonnes in …

Lake Victoria fisheries: Outlook and management

J Njiru, M van der Knaap, R Kundu… - Lakes & Reservoirs …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The past subsistence of the Lake Victoria fishery was dominated by rich, diverse
haplochromine cichlids. This multispecies fishery has undergone a decline over the past …

Detection of tilapia lake virus (TiLV) infection by PCR in farmed and wild Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) from Lake Victoria

KK Mugimba, AA Chengula, S Wamala… - Journal of fish …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tilapia lake virus disease (Ti LVD) has emerged to be an important viral disease of farmed
Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) having the potential to impede expansion of aquaculture …

[图书][B] Freshwater biodiversity in the Lake Victoria Basin: Guidance for species conservation, site protection, climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods

CA Sayer, L Máiz-Tomé, WRT Darwall - 2018 - academia.edu
The inland waters of Eastern Africa are known internationally for their high levels of species
richness and endemism, with the Lake Victoria Basin being specifically recognised in this …

The impact of rainfall events on dissolved oxygen concentrations in a subtropical urban reservoir

A Luo, H Chen, X Gao, L Carvalho, H Zhang… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding controls of dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations in reservoirs is important
as they are important for fisheries and a significant driver of greenhouse gas emissions. The …

Determination of the connectedness of land use, land cover change to water quality status of a shallow lake: a case of Lake Kyoga Basin, Uganda

JP Obubu, S Mengistou, R Odong, T Fetahi, T Alamirew - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Catchments for aquatic ecosystems connect to the water quality of those waterbodies. Land
use land cover change activities in the catchments, therefore, play a significant role in …

Spatio‐temporal trends of nutrients and physico‐chemical parameters on Lake Ecosystem and fisheries prior to onset of cage farming and re‐opening of the Mbita …

J Mwamburi, G Basweti, M Owili… - Lakes & Reservoirs …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many large lake ecosystems are experiencing increasing eutrophication and persistent
cyanobacteria‐dominated algal blooms affecting their water quality and ecosystem …

Spatial profiles of perfluoroalkyl substances and mercury in fish from northern Lake Victoria, East Africa

K Arinaitwe, A Koch, A Taabu-Munyaho, K Marien… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
There is an acute deficit of data on per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and mercury
(Hg) in the open waters of Lake Victoria, East Africa, relative to nearshore areas. We …

Automated classification of schools of the silver cyprinid Rastrineobola argentea in Lake Victoria acoustic survey data using random forests

R Proud, R Mangeni-Sande, RJ Kayanda… - ICES Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Biomass of the schooling fish Rastrineobola argentea (dagaa) is presently estimated in Lake
Victoria by acoustic survey following the simple “rule” that dagaa is the source of most echo …

Water quality, phytoplankton composition and microcystin concentrations in Kisumu Bay (Kenya) of Lake Victoria after a prolonged water hyacinth infestation period

JB Miruka, A Getabu, L Sitoki, O James… - Lakes & Reservoirs …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The production of phytoplankton (algal) toxins and their control is of concern because of the
need to reduce their negative impacts on water quality and facilitate effective management …