fishing

Fishing in Malawi. Image credit originaltravel.co.uk

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing: Fishing in Malawi

• Malawi is one of the most important inland fish producers in the SADC region.
• Malawi has been given the responsibility to co-ordinate inland fisheries, forestry and wildlife within the SADC region.
• Malawi’s fisheries include […]
  

Subsistence fishing using mosquito nets in Malawi. Image credit dw.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Natural Resources: Fishing: Fishing methods

• Subsistence fishers use:
• basket traps,
• hooks and lines,
• scoops and dugout canoes.
• These are mainly confined to the shallow waters of Lakes Malombe, Chiuta, Chilwa in southern Malawi and swamps of the […]
  

Sun dried Kapenta. Image credit blogspot.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing: Fish processing and marketing

• Subsistence and commercial fishers employ more or less the same processing methods.
• The high tropical temperatures mean that fish go bad very quickly after being landed from the lakes rivers and swamps.
• Small […]
  

A boy fishing in a Lake. Image credit irinnews.org

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:Lake fishing outside Malawi

• Fresh water lake fishing also takes place in the rift valley lakes of East Africa for example Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, Lake Victoria between Tanzania and Uganda, as well as Lakes […]
  

A Zimbabwean fisherman attempts to land his catch. Image credit deseretnews.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:Other fisheries in Zimbabwe

• Both commercial and subsistence fishing also takes place in Zimbabwe’s internal dams.
• The major ones include Lake Chivero and Manyame on the Manyame river and Lake Mutirikwi on the […]