Potential fishery of Nile perchLates niloticusLinne (Pisces: Centropomidae) in Nyanza Gulf of Lake Victoria, East Africa

✍ Scribed by Ezekiel N. Okemwa

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 338 KB
• Volume: 108
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00014871

✦ Synopsis

From bottom trawls, Lates niloticus (Lin .) in Nyanza Gulf was observed to have a gulf-wide distribution . Lates dominated the catch at Homa oint . Catch rates in kg h -I varied from one location to another and from month to month .

Its estimated roduction is 11 000 metric tons, netting about 22 000 000 Kenya shillings (US $2 000 000) .

Abundance of food items such as freshwater shrim s of the genus Caridina, and Engraulicy ris argenteus, have been used as basis for estimating the growth and roduction of Lates . * S .D . = Standard deviation .