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The Tanganyika Sardine in Lake Kivu: Another Ecodisaster for Africa?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Henri J. Dumont Dr
Henri J. Dumont Dr
Affiliation:
Editor-in-Chief of Hydrobiologia; Head, Limnology Section, Zoological Institute, State University of Gent, 9000 Gent, Belgium.
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The main pelagic ecosystem of Lake Kivu in Central Africa is about to fall victim of a manipulation that took place a quarter of a century ago.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Summer 1986 , pp. 143 - 148
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1986

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