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Lake Tanganyika has a simple but abundant pelagic fish community which in the south has been subject to a well-documented commercial fishery for 30 years. Fishing has, of course, been pursued for generations by the riparian inhabitants of Lake Tanganyika. Old accounts of fishing indicate that beach fires and charcoal braziers attached to boats were the traditional methods of attracting fish prior to capture. These methods are unlikely to have had any great effect on the pelagic fish populations.
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Pearce, M.J. (1995). Effects of exploitation on the pelagic fish community in the south of Lake Tanganyika. In: Pitcher, T.J., Hart, P.J.B. (eds) The Impact of Species Changes in African Lakes. Chapman & Hall Fish and Fisheries Series, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0563-7_20
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