The natural history and fisheries ecology of Lake Chilwa, southern Malawi

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 15-25

  Njaya, Friday ^a   Snyder, Katherine A ^b   Jamu, Daniel ^b   Wilson, John ^c   Howard Williams, Clive ^d   Allison, Edward H ^b   Andrew, Neil L ^b  

^a Fisheries Department   (Malawi)

^b WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

^c National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research ^*  (Malawi)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fisheries management; Lake Chilwa; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS; FISHERIES GOVERNANCE; FISHERIES MANAGEMENT; FLOOD PLAINS; NATURAL HISTORY; RESILIENCE; RESILIENT SYSTEMS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

ECOLOGY; FISHERIES; LAKES; WETLANDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FLOODPLAIN; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GRASS; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LAND USE CHANGE; OVERFISHING; REEDBED; SEASONALITY;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE CHILWA; MALAWI;

AVES; POACEAE;

EID: 79952700661     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2010.09.008     Document Type: Review

References (71)

1. Allison E.H., Mvula P.M. Fishing livelihoods and fisheries management in Malawi 2002, LADDER Working Paper No 23, Overseas Development Group, Norwich, U.K, (http://www.odg.uea.ac.uk/ladder/).
2. Allison E.H., Mvula P.M., Ellis F. Conflicting agendas in the development and management of fisheries on Lake Malawi. Africa's Inland Fisheries: The Management Challenge 2002, 49-73. Fountain Publishers, Uganda. K. Geheb, M.-T. Sarch (Eds.).
3. Allison E.H., Andrew N.L., Oliver J. Enhancing the resilience of inland fisheries and aquaculture systems to climate change. J. Semi-Arid Trop. Agr. Res. 2007, 4(1). (e-journal: http://www.icrisat.org/Journal/SpecialProject/sp15.pdf). Accessed 22 September 2010.
4. Allison E.H., Perry A.L., Badjeck M.-C., Adger W.N., Brown K., Conway D., Halls A.S., Reynolds J.D., Andrew N.L., Dulvy N.K. Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries. Fish Fish. 2009, 10:1-24.
5. Ambali A.J.D., Kabwazi H.H. The study of fish reproductive biology in Lake Chilwa and Mpoto Lagoon with special reference to fishery conservation measures and in relation to changes in lake regime. State of the Environment Study No. 6. Lake Chilwa Wetland Project. Zomba, Malawi 1999.
6. Beadle L.C. The Inland Waters of Tropical Africa: An Introduction to Tropical Limnology 1974, Longman, London.
7. Behnke R.H., Scoones I., Kerven C. Range Ecology at Disequilibrium 1993, ODI, London.
8. Bell-Cross G., Minshull J.L. The Fishes of Zimbabwe 1988, Trustees of the national Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.
9. Navigating Social-ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change 2003, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. F. Berkes, J. Colding, C. Folke (Eds.).
10. Binauli L., Chipeta L. Gender, livelihood security systems and environmental management in the Lake Chilwa wetland and catchment area. State of the Environment Study No. 1. Lake Chilwa Wetland Project. Zomba, Malawi 1999.
11. Botkin B.D. Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century 1990, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.
12. Bourn D. The feeding of three commercially important fish species in Lake Chilwa, Malawi. Afr. J. Trop. Hydrobiol. Fish. 1974, 3:135-146.
13. Calder I.R., Hall R.L., Bastablea H.G., Gunstona H.M., Shela O., Chirwa A., Kafundu R. The impact of land use change on water resources in sub-Saharan Africa: a modeling study of Lake Malawi. J. Hydrol. 1995, 170:123-135.
14. Chavula G.M.S. The evaluation of the present and potential water resources management for the Lake Chilwa Basin including water resources monitoring. State of the Environment Study No. 3, Lake Chilwa Wetland Project, Zomba, Malawi 1999.
15. Conway G. The science of climate change in Africa: impacts and adaptations. Grantham Institute for Climate Change Discussion Paper 1. Imperial College, London 2009.
16. Conway D., Allison E.H., Felstead R., Goulden M. Rainfall variability in East Africa: implications for natural resources management and livelihoods. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London 2005, 363:49-54.
17. Crossley R., Davison-Hirschmann S., Owen R.B., Shaw P. Lake level fluctuations during the last 2, 000years in Malawi. Late Cainozoic Paleoclimates of the Southern Hemisphere 1984, 305-316. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. J.C. Vogel (Ed.).
18. Delamore J.A. The water balance of Lake Chilwa 1987, Department of Geography, University of Loughbrough, United Kingdom, Malawi as indicator of climate changes. BSc. Hons Thesis.
19. Delaney L., Jamu D.M., Campbell C. Abundance and distribution of fish in the lower Mnembo River, Malawi-Mozambique. Afr. J. Ecol. 2006, 45:390-397.
20. Ellis F., Kutengule M., Nyasulu Livelihoods and rural poverty reduction in Malawi. World Dev. 2003, 31:1495-1510.
21. Environment Affairs Department (EAD) Lake Chilwa wetland state of the environment 2000, Environmental Affairs Department, Lilongwe, Malawi.
22. Folke C. Resilience. The emergence of a perspective for social-ecological systems analyses. Global Environ. Change 2006, 16:253-267.
23. Furse M.T., Kirk R.C., Morgan P.R., Tweddle D. Fishes: Distribution and biology in relation to changes. Lake Chilwa: Studies of change in a tropical ecosystem 1979, 175-208. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague. M. Kalk, A.J. McLachlan, C. Howard-Williams (Eds.).
24. Furse M.T., Morgan P.R., Kalk M. The fisheries of Lake Chilwa. Lake Chilwa: studies of change in a tropical ecosystem 1979, 209-229. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague. M. Kalk, A.J. McLachlan, C. Howard-Williams (Eds.).
25. Garson M.S. The geology of the Lake Chilwa Area. Bull. Geol. Surv. Nyasaland 1960, 12:67.
26. GoM (Government Malawi) and the International Food and Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Altlas of social statistics 2002, National Statistics Office, Zomba, Malawi.
27. GoM (Government of Malawi) Malawi core welfare indicators. Questionnaire survey report and survey results 2002, National Statistics Office, Zomba, Malawi.
28. GoM (Government Malawi) Participatory frame survey for Lake Chilwa. Fisheries Department 2002, Zomba, Malawi.
29. GoM (Government of Malawi) Lake Chilwa wetland state of the environment. Environmental Affairs Department 2003, Lilongwe, Malawi.
30. GoM (Government of Malawi) Frame survey report for Malawi. Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs, Lilongwe 2005.
31. Hara M. Restoring the chambo in southern Malawi: learning from the past or re-inventing the wheel?. Aquat. Health 2006, 9:19-432.
32. Hara M., Donda S.J., Njaya F.J. Lessons from Malawi's experience with fisheries co-management initiatives. Africa's inland fisheries: the management challenge 2002, 31-48. Fountain Publishers, Uganda. K. Geheb, M.-T. Sarch (Eds.).
33. Howard-Williams C. The distribution of aquatic macrophytes in Lake Chilwa; annual and long-term environmental fluctuation. Lake Chilwa: studies of change in a tropical ecosystem 1979, 107-122. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague. M. Kalk, A.J. McLachlan, C. Howard-Williams (Eds.).
34. Howard-Williams C., Ganf W. Shallow waters. The Ecology and Utilization of African Inland Waters. UNEP Reports and Proceedings, Series 1 1981, 103-113. UNEP Publication, Nairobi. J.J. Symoens, M. Burgis, J.J. Gaudet (Eds.).
35. Howard-Williams C., Walker B.H. The vegetation of a tropical African lake: classification and ordination of the vegetation of Lake Chilwa (Malawi). J. Ecol. 1974, 62:831-854.
36. Jamu, D.M., Brummet, R.E., 1999. Fish Reproduction in Lake Chilwa with Special Emphasis on Barbus paludinosus and the Status of the Watershed. State of the Environment Study No. 5, Lake Chilwa Wetland Project, Zomba, Malawi.
37. Jamu D.M., Chimphamba J.B., Brummett R.E. Land use and cover changes in the Likangala catchment of the Lake Chilwa Basin. Malawi: Implications for managing a tropical wetland. Afr. J. Aquatic Sci. 2003, 2:119-132.
38. Jul-Larsen E., Kolding J., Overa R., Raakjaer Nielsen J., van Zweiten P.A.M. Management, co-management or no management? Major dilemmas in southern African freshwater fisheries 1. Synthesis report. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 426/1, FAO, Rome 2003.
39. Kabwazi H.H., Wilson J.G.M. The fishery of Lake Chilwa. The Lake Chilwa Environment: a Report of the 1996 Ramsar Site Study 1998, 91-108. Chancellor College Publications, Zomba. K. van Zegeren, M.P. Munyenyembe (Eds.).
40. Kalk M. Zooplankton in a quasi-stable state in an endorheic lake (Lake Chilwa, Malawi). Hydrobiologia 1979, 66:7-15.
41. Kalk M. Zooplankton in Lake Chilwa: adaptations to changes. Lake Chilwa: Studies of Change in a Tropical Ecosystem 1979, 125-141. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague. M. Kalk, A.J. McLachlan, C. Howard-Williams (Eds.).
42. Kalk M., McLachlan A.J., Howard-Williams C. Lake Chilwa: studies of change in a tropical ecosystem 1979, W. Junk Publishers, The Hague.
43. King M. Fisheries Biology 1995, Fishing News Books, Oxford, Assessment and Management.
44. Kirk R.G. The zoogeographical affinities of the fishes of the Chilwa-Chiuta depression in Malawi. Rev. Zool. Afr. 1976, 76:295-311.
45. Lancaster N. The changes in lake level. Lake Chilwa: Studies of Change in a Tropical Ecosystem 1979, 41-58. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague. M. Kalk, A.J. McLachlan, C. Howard-Williams (Eds.).
46. Landes A., Otte G. Fisheries development in the Lake Chilwa and Lake Chiuta Region in Malawi. Report prepared for the Germany Agency for Technical Cooperation 1983.
47. MacLachlan A.J. Decline and recovery of benthic invertebrate communities. Lake Chilwa: Studies of Change in a Tropical Ecosystem 1979, 145-160. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague. M. Kalk, A.J. McLachlan, C. Howard-Williams (Eds.).
48. Macuiane M., Kaunda E., Jamu D.M., Kanyerere G. Reproductive biology and breeding of Barbus paludinosus and B. trimaculatus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Lake Chilwa, Malawi: implications for fisheries management. Afr. J. Aquat. Sci. 2009, 34:123-130.
49. Mkanda F.X. Contribution by farmers' survival strategies to soil erosion in the Linthipe River Catchment: implications for biodiversity conservation in Lake Malawi/Nyasa. Biol. Cons. 2002, 11:1327-1359.
50. Morgan A., Kalk M. Seasonal changes in the waters of Lake Chilwa (Malawi) in a drying phase 1966-68. Hydrobiologia 1970, 36:81-103.
51. Moss B. The Lake Chilwa ecosystem-a limnological overview. Lake Chilwa: Studies of Change in a Tropical Ecosystem 1979, 399-415. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague. M. Kalk, A.J. McLachlan, C. Howard-Williams (Eds.).
52. Moss B. Uses, abuses and management of lakes and rivers. Hydrobiologia 1992, 243(244):31-45.
53. Msiska O.V. A review of limnology of Malawi. International Association for Limnology (SIL) 2001, 3:121-189. R.G. Wetzel, B. Gopal (Eds.).
54. Nicholson S.E. Fluctuations of rift valley Lakes Malawi and Chilwa during historical times: A synthesis of geological, archaeological and historical information. Environmental change and response in East African Lakes 1998, 207-301. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. J.T. Lehmnad (Ed.).
55. Njaya, F.J., 2001. Review of management measures for Lake Chilwa, Malawi: final project. Fisheries Training Programme. United Nations University (). Accessed 22 September 2010. http://www.unuftp.is/fellows/view/172.
56. Njaya F.J. Fisheries co-management in Malawi: implementation arrangements for Lakes Malombe, Chilwa and Chiuta. Africa's Inland Fisheries: The Management Challenge 2002, 9-30. Fountain Publishers, Uganda. K. Geheb, M.-T. Sarch (Eds.).
57. Njaya F.J., Chiotha S., Kabwazi H. Lake Chilwa management plan 1996, Proceedings of a workshop on the development of Lake Chilwa management plan, Government of Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi.
58. Phipps P. The 'Big' fishermen of Lake Chilwa. A preliminary study in entrepreneurism in rural Malawi. Rural Africana 1973, 21:39-48. M.E. Page (Ed.).
59. th International Conference of the Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade. Corvallis, Oregon 2000, 11pp. http://osu.orst.edu/dept/IIFET/2000/papers/sarch.pdf.
60. Schuijt K.D. Economic valuation of the Lake Chilwa wetland. State of the environment study No. 18. Lake Chilwa Wetland Project, Zomba, Malawi 1999.
61. Scoones I. Living with uncertainty-new directions for pastoral development in Africa 1995, IIED, London.
62. SRWB (Southern Region Water Board) Annual Operations Report (2008-2009). Zomba, Malawi 2009.
63. Talling J.F., Lemoalle J. Ecological Dynamics of Tropical Inland Waters 1998, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
64. van Zegeren K. The size of the Lake Chilwa wetland. Mal. J. Sci. Tech. 1998, 4:1-10.
65. van Zegeren K., Wilson J.G.M. Bird catching on Lake Chilwa. Nyala 1997, 20:37-46.
66. van Zegeren K., Wilson J.G.M. Bird catching around Lake Chilwa, Malawi. Ostrich 1997, 70:246-247.
67. van Zwieten P.A.M., Njaya F. Environmental variability, effort development, and the regenerative capacity of fish stocks in Lake Chilwa, Malawi. Management, Co-management or No Management: Major Dilemmas in Southern Africa Freshwater Fisheries (Case Studies). FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 426/2 2003, 100-131. FAO, Rome. E. Jul-Larsen, J. Kolding, R. Overa, N.J. Raakjaer, P.A.M. van Zwieten (Eds.).
68. Vanden Bossche J.-P., Bernacsek G.M. Source book for the inland fishery resources of Africa: 1.CIFA Technical Paper.No. 18.1 1990, FAO, Rome.
69. Wang G., Yu Z., Guimin L., Lin C. Impact of land use change on hydrological processes in the Maying River basin, China. Earth Sci. 2006, 49:1098-1110.
70. Wilson J.A., Acheson J.M., Metcalfe M., Kleban P. Chaos, complexity and community management of fisheries. Mar. Policy 1994, 18:291-305.
71. Zimba G.M., Kaunda C.C. Health Hazards of the Lake Chilwa Wetland and Catchment. State of the Environment Study No. 19. Lake Chilwa Wetland Project. Zomba, Malawi 1999.