Abstract:
The 10th lake-wide hydro-acoustic survey under IFMP was conducted on Lake
Victoria from 17th March – 16th April 2010 with the overall objective of estimating the
standing stock of the major commercial fish stocks in the lake. Environmental and
bottom net sampling were concurrently done using a CTD profiler and a bottom trawl
net respectively. Two CTDs from NaFIRRI (Old and New) were used following the
malfunctioning of the KMFRI CTD that has been used in all the previous surveys and
is now due for service. Acoustic Data were analyzed using Echoview 4.90 software
recently released by Myriax. Illustration of Spatial distribution of fish stocks and
water environmental parameters were drawn in Arcview 3.2.