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|a Baseline Survey of Fisheries Resources in the Mara Swamp and Musoma Bay, 2007 |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a [S.l.] : |b Florida International University, |c 2007. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the users' responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a Baseline Survey of Fisheries Resources in the Mara Swamp and Musoma Bay, Mara6 Basin, Tanzania. 2007. Global Water for Sustainability Program, Florida International University. 25p. |
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|a Musoma Bay is part of Lake Victoria and it stretches in an easterly direction for about
20 km in length with an average width of about five kilometers. Its end forms the mouth
of Mara River. Mara Swamp is within the lower part of Mara River; it extends from
about a kilometer behind the river mouth to some kilometers up the river, covering an
area not less than 50 km2. Both the Bay and river have a rich assortment of floral and
faunal biodiversity, some being of economic importance.
Present fish resources in Musoma Bay include the Nile tilapia, the catfish, lungfish,
Nile perch and some resurging species which, previously, had almost disappeared
through predation, heavy exploitation, and environmental and ecological changes brought
about by exceptionally heavy rains of early 1960s. Those rains also were the source of the
growth and expansion of the swamp that bears riverine species, some of which ascend the
river during the wet season (November-May) to spawn. Also, the flood-pools and ox-bow
lakes contain fish species that have almost disappeared from the main lake. Presently, the
important fish species are the lungfish and catfishes. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |d 2014. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a Florida International University. |
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|a Mara River (Kenya and Tanzania). |
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|a Global Water for Sustainability Program (Florida International University). |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FIGW000007/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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