Lake Victoria: Casualty of capitalism. From: Monthly Review | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: MacDougall, A. Kent | COPYRIGHT 2001 Monthly Review Foundation, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Lake Victoria, the world's second largest fresh-water lake (after Lake Superior), has long been East Africa's chief environmental, economic, and nutritional asset. Its four hundred species of native fish have traditionally provided local fishermen with their livelihood and East Africans with their primary source of protein.

Capitalist maldevelopment and the intrusion of the global market have changed all that--swiftly and calamitously. A non-native fish introduced for th...

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