Chicken feed on the lake bed
Mud dredged up from the bottom of Lake Victoria, 20 metres down, could be turned into food for pigs and chickens, according to the director of the East African Fisheries Research Organisation (EAFRO), Mr R. S. A. Beauchamp.
After studying the composition of the fauna and flora that are found in Lake Victoria, his colleagues have discovered that there was not as much plankton (the minute vegetable growth on which the Lake Victoria fish feed) as they expected in the water, because of a shortage of sulphur. In lakes in temperate climates, millions of…
