AQUATIC ecosystems perform many important environmental functions.
For example, they recycle nutrients, purify water, attenuate floods, recharge groundwater and provide habitats for wildlife.
Aquatic ecosystems are also used for human recreation, and are very important to the tourism industry, especially in coastal regions of southern Africa.
The...
TROUT farming has an interesting history in Zimbabwe.
Once a major export earner for the fishing sector of Zimbabwe, exports of Rainbow trout (onchorynchus mykiss) have since declined.
From time immemorial, as evidenced on early Stone Age rock art paintings and various archaeological artefacts, the hunter-gatherers...
THOUGH the period between infection and the first flu-like symptoms is two - 12 weeks, incubation periods as short as four days and longer than six years have been documented, depending on the location, severity of the wound and the amount of virus introduced. ...
THE amplified chorus for the removal of Western-imposed illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe by the world would have, under normal circumstances, cajoled countries from that part of the world to have a relook at the embargo but because it was designed to restore the...
ENDEMIC to Zimbabwe, central, east and Southern Africa is the zoonotic viral disease commonly known as rabies, or ‘imbwa mupengo’ – literally meaning ‘mad dog disease’ in the Shona language, because of its potentially violent nature.
According to my dictionary, the term is derived from...
GLOBALLY, waterbodies constitute part of the natural capital of a nation.
Already, in 2015, the Government of Zimbabwe, through the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Development, emphasised the need to improve and develop the aquatic and fisheries sector of Zimbabwe’s agriculture.
Needless...
GLOBALLY, waterbodies constitute part of the natural capital of a nation.
Already, in 2015, the Government of Zimbabwe, through the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Development, emphasised the need to improve and develop the aquatic and fisheries sector of Zimbabwe’s agriculture.
Needless...
AQUATIC ecosystems perform many important environmental functions.
For example, they recycle nutrients, purify water, attenuate floods, recharge ground water and provide habitats for wildlife.
Aquatic ecosystems are also used for human recreation and are very important to the tourism industry, especially in coastal regions of Southern...
A STUPEFYING combination of naivety and fatuous detachment from history, even when it is becoming increasingly clear that the changing dynamics in global political and economic affairs are swaying the odds in favour of previously oppressed people, means that each time an African nation...
FISH harvesting, handling, processing and distribution provides livelihood for millions of people as well as foreign exchange to many African countries’ exchequers. Approximately 35 million people in Africa depend wholly or partly on fisheries.
However, until the introduction of ‘Command Fisheries’ in 2017, in...
THE unrestrained vitriol that accompanied Ghanaian Pan-African blogger, Kobina Ackon, popularly known as Wode Maya’s positive projection of Zimbabwe by CCC is not surprising.
It is another confirmation that, besides their glaring ideological deficiencies, the opposition was created to specifically destroy this country with the...
FISH are the oldest and most abundant vertebrates in the world comprising about 24 000 species (over 40 percent of all known vertebrates)
They are grouped into classes, like agnatha— jawless fish; chondrichthyes– sharks, rays as well as chimacras and osteichthyes – bony fish.
About 8...
