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February 12, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100208144629.htm

Israel, U.S. Partner to Help Uganda Create Fish Farms

(Science Daily) To combat depleted fish supplies in Lake Victoria, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Makerere University in Kampala have established "boutique" fish farms in 14 villages around the Lake's shore in Uganda. The project was initiated five years ago and has been financed by USAID. Prof. Berta Levavi-Sivan of the Hebrew University's Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment found a way to spawn several species of African carp and cultivate them in fish farms. Four large fish farms, whose owners were trained in Israel, produce enough fingerlings to populate small ponds in villages around the lake. The people of each village, and especially their children, consume the project-fish as their main source of protein.

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