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Article: Saving lake Victoria: Brad Collis tells a dramatic tale of biological control textured with African politics, Australian science and a tiny, hungry, South American weevil.
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- Ecos
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Pink fillets of tilapia lie draped and drying over the gunwales of fishing dhows hauled onto the black beach. Under a bright equatorial sun, women tend nets as thin-boned men, spectral figures against shimmering water, work inside tangled rigging and spars. Paint and woodsmoke perfume the air.
Life is returning to Kendu Bay, a fishing village on the Kenyan shores of Lake Victoria -- thanks to some Aussie ingenuity and a small South American beetle.
In early 1988, the streets here were deserted, the houses empty. The community, already decimated by AIDS, had also lost its prime source of income and food: its fishing industry. Lake Victoria, legendary ...