Lake Victoria's Ecosystem, Vital to Millions, May Be Unraveling From: The Washington Post | Date: June 5, 1989| Author: William Booth | Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The greatest freshwater lake in Africa, once a living aquarium filled with hundreds of species of exotic fish, may be poised on the brink of an ecological collapse that would rob millions of lakeshore people of their major source of protein.

An international team of researchers has reported that Lake Victoria, the third largest lake in the world, is dominated by just three species of fish, including an introduced predator called the Nile perch. Unlike the perch familiar in American w...

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