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Lake Victoria formerly was very rich in fish, including many endemics, but a high percentage of these became extinct since the 1940s. [38] The main group in Lake Victoria is the haplochromine cichlids (Haplochromis sensu lato) with more than 500 species, almost all endemic, [22] [39] [40] and including an estimated 300 that still are ...
The cichlid Haplochromis thereuterion is endemic to Lake Victoria.. In 1927-1928 Michael Graham conducted the first ever systematic Fisheries Survey of Lake Victoria.The dominant species in the 1927–8 survey catches were two, now critically endangered tilapia species, the 'Ngege' or Singida tilapia (Oreochromis esculentus) and Victoria tilapia (O. variabilis).
Lake Victoria is a 139-hectare (340-acre) shallow saline lake on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria in Australia, close to the township of Point Lonsdale and part of the Lonsdale Lakes Nature Reserve administered by Parks Victoria.
Lake Victoria Retains Experienced Contractor and Operator to Commission the Kinyambwiga Small Scale Gold Mining Project, Tanzania, East Africa VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lake ...
Lake Victoria (elevation 1,134 metres (3,720 ft)), with an area of 68,800 square kilometres (26,600 sq mi), is the largest lake in Africa. It is not in the Rift Valley, instead occupying a depression between the eastern and western rifts formed by the uplift of the rifts to either side.
Lake Victoria: 68,800 km 2 (26,600 sq mi) Tanzania Kenya Uganda: Lake Victoria is the largest of the African Great Lakes and is the largest freshwater lake in Africa. The Lake is also the second-largest freshwater lake in the world and spans across three countries. The lake is the solely drained by the Nile river at Jinja. [3] Lake Amboseli
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Lake Victoria ferries are motor ships (earlier examples were steamboats) for ferry services carrying freight and/or vehicles and/or passengers between Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya on Lake Victoria. Operating ferries on Lake Victoria are mostly Ro-Pax ferries for the simultaneous transport of passengers, vehicles and goods.