No fish in Lake Victoria by 2014, experts warn

The fishing Industry in Lake Victoria is on the brink of extinction as fish species continue to decline due to overfishing and pollution. Ugandas fishing industry experts now say that the industry will disappear in the next five years unless strict measures are put in place to reverse the trend. Thousands of Kenyans depend on the lake both directly and indirectly to survive.

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[nayumwanoo]

The word "experts" looks correctly written.

changeandthetime, what is the issue here?

[shondeshonde]

Fis finis yawa

[speakswahilidammit]

Just back UK after first visit Mwanza in 44 years. Much changed, much the same. Watu lovely. Hot, muggy, road chaos, poor people, many nations, commerce buzzing, yet unemployment huge. Bilharzia rampant in lake, due Nile-Perch eating snail-predators. Lake Mercury-poisoned due illegal gold mining around shores. Thousands tons fish processed by Mwanza factories weekly, falling due stock depletion. What can be done? See my video - paradise lost? Must DO something! Come on Greenpeace, let's act!

[ambasada13]

Even if the rech is finished, Uganda still wants to have Migingo (and the list will likely grow to include more of Kenya's territory once the experiment with the "rock" in the lake is complete).

[mytime81]

Solve the pollution issue fast. Control fishing to avoid immature fish being cought. Invest on inland fish farms, and improve high seas fishing in Indian ocean to ease pressure from L. Victoria. Msiseme hamkuambiwa.

[AfricansArise]

I hope we get this sorted out quickly.

[siasabora]

ni glue! lol

[siasabora]

Unless the my fellow countrymen and women think out of their traditional box, soon the motherland will be masses of hunger, drought and dust bowls with all the 42 tribes running wild n crazy like they doing in Somalia. Farms are gone now Fis...na hatuna minerals za maana! Hopeless!

[daisyao]

yawa...wat iss.

[Tillia87]

changeandthetime you don't even know which one is correct..