| dc.identifier.citation | Mgabo, M.R., (2018): Sustainable Solutions for Overfishing Challenges in the Lake Victoria: Optimizing Untapped Opportunities Along With the on-Going Industrialization Efforts in Tanzania, in Kinyashi, G.F., Mwang’onda, E., Mdendemi, T.R.K., Mandara, C.G., and Hauli, E., (eds.), Conference Proceedings for an International Conference on Planning and Development under the theme Towards Industrialisation in the Global South: Making Rural Regions Inclusive, held at the Institute of Rural Development Planning-Dodoma June 28-30, 2018. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Depleting fish catch and fish stock in Lake Victoria is linked to various factors. These
include; increased market demand for fish particularly Nile Perch, improved fishing gears,
illegal fishing, weak monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) operations,
environmental degradation, unemployment challenge in the Lake Zone and other parts of
Tanzania. Continuing growth in population and migration of people to search for a living
in the Lake Victoria as an open access resource, in turn it results in increased pressure on
the lake resources. The population influx to Lake Victoria shores and its islands is directly
linked to lack of alternative livelihood and increasing income poverty in the regions
surrounding the lake. However, underutilization of other available opportunities compels
people to resort into fishing since the lake is a free open access resource hence leading to
overfishing. Therefore, this critical reflective article, shares some views on how an
integrated rural development planning through “Opportunity and Obstacles to
Development (O&OD) analysis can facilitate the exploration of the underutilized
economic opportunities in districts surrounding Lake Victoria and neighboring regions in
Tanzania so as to reduce population pressure and overfishing in Lake Victoria. | en_US |
