Kenya and Uganda Fight over Diminishing Perch in Lake Victoria. By Jeffrey Gettleman, NYTimes, August 17, 2009. "Mingingo Island lies right along the disputed watery border between Kenya and Uganda, and politicians have even threatened to go to war over it. The reason? Fish. Lots of them, but maybe not enough. The island is... surrounded by schools of tasty -- and exportable -- Nile perch... Lake Victoria, one of the world's biggest bodies of fresh water, which 30 million impoverished Africans depend on for their survival, may be running out of these fish. According to a recent study, Nile perch stocks are down by nearly 70%, threatening a crucial industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars... It is irrefutable evidence, environmentalists say, of climate change, overpopulation, pollution, deforestation and other modern ills coming to a head in a part of Africa that is unprepared to deal with it."
2009-08-20
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