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| Title: | Floodplain fishery of the lower Sondu-Miriu River with emphasis on the Nile perch (Lates niloticus) (Linnaeus) |
| Authors: | Manyala, J.O. |
| ASFA Terms: | Catch composition
River fisheries |
| Issue Date: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | ICIPE SCIENCE |
| Citation: | Okemwa, E.; Wakwabi, E.O.; Getabu, A. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Second EEC Regional Seminar on Recent Trends of Research on Lake Victoria Fisheries, NAIROBI : ICIPE SCIENCE, p. 85-92 |
| Abstract: | Experimental beach seine surveys in 1990 in the lower Sondu-Miriu
River in Kenya indicate a potential catch rate of up to 59.8 kg ha
super(-1) hr super(-1). Lates niloticus dominated the catches in the
lower reaches (37.5%), while catches in the upper reaches were
dominated by Labeo victorianus, Schilbe mystus and Barbus altianalis.
L. victorianus contributed up to 84.8% of the catch in the upper
reaches by weight. Catches in the floodplain were dominated by
Oreochromis niloticus, O. variabilis and Clarias gariepinus, which
contributed more than 50% by weight. The size frequency distribution
of L. niloticus suggests that larger specimens occur in the river as
compared to the floodplain. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/1173 |
| ISBN: | 9290640789 |
| Appears in Collections: | Conference Papers
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