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Title: | The Lake Kilwa Fisheries |
Author: | Agnew, S. |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | East African Geographical Review |
Issue: | 9 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 45-57 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Malawi |
Subjects: | rural society inland fisheries Development and Technology Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
Abstract: | A determination of the size and the ethnic composition of eight fishing settlements along the shores of Lake Chilwa (Malawi). The discussion is focussed on: age-structure of the population, the proportion of males and females in each of the lake areas, the influx of migrants to the lake-side, and assessment of the proportion of migrants in the lake settlements. Four tables which show resp. the estimated landings of fish from 1963-1969, the quantity and value of Lake Chilwa fish, the total population of certain lakeside settlements, and enumeration of population on Chisi Island. Five figures, notes, ref. |