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Losing a lake. (Lake Victoria)
Discover; 3/1/1994; Baskin, Yvonne; 787 words
; Lake Victoria is in danger of becoming the world's ... OVER KUSA BAY, where the brown waters of Lake Victoria lap at the parched Kenyan savanna. A ... forests, and the one in deepest peril is Lake Victoria. At its greatest extent this huge body ...
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The Nile perch in Lake Victoria: local responses and adaptations.
Africa; 9/22/2005; Pringle, Robert; 787 words
; ABSTRACT Introduced into Lake Victoria in the 1950s, the Nile perch has ... development of the Nile perch fishery on Lake Victoria. Particular emphasis is placed ... the abrupt integration of the Lake Victoria fishery with the global economy ...
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Lake Victoria: Casualty of capitalism.
Monthly Review; 12/1/2001; MacDougall, A. Kent; 787 words
; Lake Victoria, the world's second largest fresh-water ... and fish life, and scientists warn that Lake Victoria could die by 2050. The degradation of Lake Victoria from a pristine jewel to what is fast ...
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Lake Victoria perch - at the head of the predatory food chain
The Independent Weekly; 11/30/2005; Anonymous; 787 words
; ... eye was caught by the legend: "Lake Victoria Perch." It caught my eye because ... a bell. Of course, I thought, Lake Victoria. Big lake, Africa, Stanley, Livingston ... this, from the major importer of Lake Victoria perch: "Rich in Omega-3 ... Lake ...
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The agony of Lake Victoria
New African; 7/1/1998; Onyango, William; 661 words
; As Lake Victoria suffocates under a dense mat of tangled ... which is strangling the life out of Lake Victoria, Africa's largest fresh water lake. Lake Victoria is vital to the economies of the lacustrine ...
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Simulated Physical Mechanisms Associated with Climate Variability over Lake Victoria Basin in East Africa
Monthly Weather Review; 12/1/2006; Anyah, Richard O; Semazzi, Fredrick H M; Xie, Lian; 787 words
; ... multiscale variability of the Lake Victoria basin climate. To examine the ... some of the previous studies that Lake Victoria generates its own climate (rainfall ... lake-atmosphere climate variability over Lake Victoria basin in East Africa on diurnal ...
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Lake's Bounty Becomes Its Bane; Transplanted Fish Help Speed Ecological Demise of Africa's Victoria
The Washington Post; 7/7/1992; Susan Okie; 787 words
; ... day begins in this small town on Lake Victoria, long wooden canoes glide toward ... recent years, scientists studying Lake Victoria say that the lake is slowly dying. Twenty years ago, Lake Victoria - which at 26,800 square miles ...
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Ugandas Thirst for Electricity Drains Lake Victoria
All Things Considered (NPR); 3/7/2006; MICHELE NORRIS, MELISSA BLOCK; 773 words
; ... Thirst for Electricity Drains Lake Victoria Host: MICHELE NORRIS, MELISSA ... MICHELE NORRIS, host: From NPR News this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ... crisis. The level of giant Lake Victoria has dropped significantly and ... started discharging water from Lake Victoria. NPRs Jason ...
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Changing economic problems for women in the Nile perch fishing communities on Lake Victoria
Anthropologica; 1/1/1996; Medard, Modesta; Wilson, Douglas C; 787 words
; ... Large-scale changes in the ecology of Lake Victoria have had a number of implications ... Nile perch Lares niloticus), to Lake Victoria in the 1950s, and in the late ... Overfishing has been a problem on Lake Victoria since the beginning of the century ...
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Battle for Resources Grows and Lake Victoria Shrinks
NPR Morning Edition; 5/29/2008; ROBERT SMITH; 745 words
; ... how the people who fish on the lake are struggling against their ... Obiero(ph) has been a fisherman on Lake Victoria for 28 years. He lives just outside ... from Kenya's narrow arm of the lake into Ugandan waters. Edie and ... who make a living on and around Lake Victoria. Competition ...
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