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Article: "Africa's great lakes in peril." (Lake Victoria)
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- World Watch
- Article date:
- November 1, 1994
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(March/April 1992).
For several decades, Lake Victoria, Africa's largest and the world's second largest fresh-water lake, has been a victim of overfishing, pollution, and sedimentation, as World Watch reported in early 1992. Victoria has been referred to as a "dying lake" by some scientists because many species have dwindled in number and are close to extinction, algal growth has exploded extensively, and oxygen levels have dropped very low. But since our 1992 report, representatives of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania have formed the Lake Victoria Organization to coordinate rescue efforts.
One of those efforts is aimed at the Nile Perch, a voracious predator that ...