Fishing with bed nets on Lake Tanganyika: a randomized survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria is among the most common causes of death along Lake Tanganyika, a problem which many aid organizations have attempted to combat through the distribution of free mosquito bed nets to high-risk communities. The Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic (LTFHC), a health-based non-governmental organization (NGO), has observed residents of the Lake Tanganyika basin using bed nets to fish small fry near the shoreline, despite a series of laws that prohibit bed net use and other fine-gauge nets for fishing, implemented to protect the near-shore fish ecology. The LTFHC sought to quantify the sources of bed nets and whether they were being used for fishing.

Methods

The LTFHC conducted a survey of seven lakeside villages in Lagosa Ward, Tanzania. The government has di

SUBMITTER: McLean KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4198669 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature