Dagaa, or small sardine fish, laid out to dry on tarps and raised drying racks in Katonga, a fishing village in northwestern Tanzania [Tristan Bove/Al Jazeera] Lake Tanganyika is Africa’s ...

Along the shores of Lake Tanganyika, there are two kinds of fishermen: the ones who fish for an abundant nocturnal sardine called dagaa and the ones who don't. Retired fisherman Myonge Seph has ...

The problems in Tanganyika were somewhat different ... Large scale fisheries for the lake’s small sardines started in the 1950s, quickly mushrooming into a major industry.

At 60% by weight of overall catch, sardines are the dominant commercial fish in Lake Tanganyika. But since the late 1970s, the annual sardine catch has declined by 30–50%, to 165,000–200,000 ...

Tanzania is Lake Tanganyika's principal producer of sardine, sprat and perch accounting to up to 85 per cent of the lake's annual catches. These fisheries employ some 27,000 fishers and 11,000 ...

The Lake Tanganyika sardine (Limnothrissa miodon), a fish endemic to the world’s second-oldest freshwater lake, is a welcome catch in landlocked Burundi. Known locally as kapenta, it’s an ...

Lake Tanganyika is 418 miles long ... Wagner and colleagues are studying two species of endemic sardines, which are the most abundant fish in the lake's open water zone. "My role in the project ...

“Currently, Lake Tanganyika is warming, and this has major consequences ... Specifically, Wagner says the group will study two sardine species and four large predator species, which are relatives of ...

PARIS, May 16 Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and second ... of which up to 200,000 tonnes, mainly sardines, are harvested each year. The paper, led by Jessica Tierney, a geologist at Brown ...

Wearing an oversized football jersey and waterproof cargo pants, he splashes through the surf with bucketfuls of dagaa, a type of sardine fishers ... too common for Lake Tanganyika’s fishers.