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Fishing:Natural lakes

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:33:04+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Inland water fishing in Zambia. Image credit mg.co.za

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

Fresh water lakes are mainly found in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.
Zimbabwe does not have natural lakes, all are man-made.
Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and Lake Malawi are the largest and deepest rift […]

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Fish processing and marketing

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:19:54+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Processing fish by drying them. Image credit MediaWiki

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

Most of the fish are sold fresh at the fishing ports and major urban areas in the region.
Use of refrigerated facilities has become increasingly important.
Some fresh fish are transported into […]

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Fishing in Malawi

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:34:41+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

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 […]

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The world’s major fisheries

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:20:13+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

World’s Aquatic habitats. Image credit utexas.edu

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:The world’s major fisheries

Fresh water fishing is important in localized communities.
In most cases the world’s fish comes from the ocean.
Most of the world’s productive ocean fisheries are located in the shallow waters of continental shelves […]

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The different types of fishing methods

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:35:19+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

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 […]

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Problems affecting the world’s fishing industry

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:20:40+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Over fishing is one of the problems facing the fish industry. Image credit MediaWiki

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:Problems affecting the world’s fishing industry

Slight changes in conditions in the continental shelves alter the food chain.
This reduces fish production.
An example is the decline in anchovy fish […]

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Fish processing and marketing

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:35:52+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

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 […]

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Solutions for sustaining the world’s fisheries

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:20:59+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Swimming fish. Image credit National Geographic

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:Solutions for sustaining the world’s fisheries

Increasing fishing disputes have pressured the United Nations into action.
Through the Third United Nations Conference on the law of the Sea of 1974, the UN established a 200 nautical mile zone […]

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Fresh water fishing outside Malawi

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:36:55+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

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 […]

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