Victoria Lake

Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world in terms of area and the largest in Africa and is the largest tropical lake in the world . An area of ​​68 870 square kilometers .

 Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes and overlooked by three countries, namely Kenya , Uganda and Tanzania , the lake also includes about 3,000 islands each became a destination for many tourists .

Image of Lake Victoria from space

Stems from this lake White Nile River , and was the first to talk about this fact Arab traveler Idrisi about 1160 m , which behind an accurate map of the lake.

 Name the lake due to the British traveler John Hanin Speck , which is the first European traveler to reach the lake in 1858 and dubbed the then British Queen .

Lake Victoria fisheries

Area of ​​the lake is divided between Kenya ( 6%), and Uganda ( 45%) , Tanzania ( 49 %). The most important African Great Lakes fisheries due to a large increase in the catch of Nile perch (introduced in the ecosystem in the late fifties of the twentieth century ) as of mid-eighties.

Total catch of Nile perch from part of Kenya 's Lake Victoria from its peak in 1994 ( according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization ). During the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century , was hit by catches from Lake Victoria entire stagnated relative In the eighties , there has been a very significant increase in the Nile perch , both in terms of quantities relative or absolute , and so are fisheries around Lake Victoria has been transformed by the year 1990, from the standpoint of the crop, from the source to a wide range of multi-species to the source based on two types of arrivals and one species is endemic .

There has been a significant expansion in the silver carp fisheries in particular. It occupies the second place fish from a commercial point after the Nile perch , exploited and traded widely in the Lake Victoria Basin and beyond, characterized in fish Smart Chips .