Credit: Lumbwe Kalumba (Zambia) Review: Lumbwe Kalumba and Abdel Rahman El Gamal
The photo shows a fisheries officers while conducting catch assessment survey on Mweru-Luapula Fishery in Luapula Province, Zambia.
Lake Mweru is a freshwater lake located in the Luapula valley on the borders of Northern Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its fishery provides food, employment and income to about 400000 local people and supplies about 40 percent of the fish sold on the Zambian market. The steady growth of fish trade whether in Zambia or in Congo has led to a heavy exploitation of the lake’s fish resources necessitated setting and enforcing fishery regulations as managed by the Department of Fishery. The fishery of the lake comprises of bream, Tilapia macrochir, a catfish species, a carp species, tiger fish, elephant fish and sardine-like species.
