Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world in terms of area and the largest in Africa, it is also the largest tropical lake in the world. An area of 68 870 square kilometers and has resulted in the construction of Owen Falls extension? On the Nile in 1949 and 1954 due to the high water level in the lake at a rate of 90 cm to the height of 1135 m above sea level greater potential for exposure deepest point deep in the lake 82 m and is Lake Victoria, one of the African Great Lakes and overlooked by three countries, namely Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania lake also includes about 3,000 each island has become a destination for many tourists.
This stems from the lake, the White Nile River, and was the first to speak the truth about this Arab traveler Idrisi about 1160 m and that left an accurate map of the lake. The name of the lake due to the British explorer John Speke Hanin, which is the first European explorers reach the lake in 1858 and called the name of the British Queen Anamak.
Area of the lake is divided between Kenya (6%), and Uganda (45%) and Tanzania (49%). And the most important fisheries of the Great Lakes of Africa because of the large increase in the catch of Nile perch fish (which were introduced in the ecosystem in the late fifties of the twentieth century) as of the mid-eighties. [1].
Nile perch catches of fish from Kenya's portion of Lake Victoria peaked in 1994 (according to the Food and Agriculture Organization estimates). During the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, was hit by catches from Lake Victoria entire relative stagnation in the eighties, achieved a very significant increase in the Nile perch fish both in terms of the relative quantities or absolute, and thus fisheries be around Lake Victoria has been transformed by the year 1990, from the standpoint of the crop, the source of a wide range of multi-species to the source based on two arrivals and one type is endemic. And became white fish is the main source of foreign new system (60 per cent), followed in rank silver carp (Latin: Rastrineobola argentea) (20 per cent) and tilapia fish come in third place (10 per cent).
Significant expansion in fisheries Silver carp fish in particular happened. Those fish and occupies second place in commercial terms after Nile perch fish, and exploit and trade on a large scale in the Lake Victoria Basin and beyond. Characterized in fish Smart Chips...
