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Lake Kariba2 was formed by damming the Zambezi River between 1955 and 1958. It was finally filled in 1963. It is the third largest man-made lake today with a length of 277 km, a mean depth of 29m and a surface area of 5 400km2. The lake is shared between Zambia and Zimbabwe, and has a catchment area of 1 193 500 km2 which extends over Angola, Zambia, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The lake has an average annual draw down of 3m. This is because rainfall is seasonal, falling between December and February. The lake level rises to reach a maximum in May — June, although it has experienced massive fluctuations of late, following severe droughts. The lowest level (11 m below maximum level) was experienced in 1982.3 This shows that climatic changes will impact the lake and its ecology. The lake is divided into 5 basins on the basis of hydrobiological factors.
I thank my colleagues in the Zambia Zimbabwe SADC Fisheries Project for sharing many ideas that led to conceptualising the fisheries conservation approaches described in this Chapter. I enjoyed sharing many ideas over the ecosystem adaptive management approaches with Rowen B. Martin and my colleagues at the Africa Resources Trust particularly Rob Monro. Finally, I wish to thank Kevin R. Gray who reviewed this paper.
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Machena, C. (2003). Setting up Institutions to Manage Transboundary Natural Resources: Lake Kariba a Case in Point. In: International Environmental Law and Policy in Africa. Environment & Policy, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0135-8_10
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