Abstract
In the Burundi sector of Lake Tanganyika (Fig. 21.1), pelagic fisheries operate at night, mainly catching the centropomid Lates stappersi and its chief prey, two endemic species of sardine (Stolothrissa tanganicae and Limnothrissa miodon). Lates maxim and other Lates spp. are of secondary importance. Industrial fisheries use purse seines, the technology of which has not changed since they began during the 1950s. Artisanal fisheries use lift nets, the technology of which was improved during the 1980s; in consequence, artisanal fisheries operate in open waters in competition with industrial fisheries. The aims of this chapter are to describe recent changes in the artisanal fisheries, and to analyse and discuss the changing interrelationship of the pelagic fishery sectors during the 1980s.
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