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Lake Malawi accounts for more than 90% of landlocked Malawi’s total fish catch, and a key fishing ground is the water around Mbenje Island.

The community here has since the 1950s practiced, and enforced, a fisheries management regime that continues to benefit both fishers and local fish stocks.

By Charles Mpaka
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/how-a-lineage-of-chiefs-built-a-thriving-fish-oasis-in-lake-malawi/

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