File:Lake Victoria, source of Africa´s Nilo River, NE shore.jpg

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English: Sobre o centro da imagem, em laranja, aparece a pluma de sedimentos do Rio Nzóia. A água esbranquiçada, à sua esq. vem do Rio Sio. Abaixo do centro da imagem está a Ilha Sigulu / In orange, above image center, is Kenya´s Nzoya River sediment plume. Whitish water to its left comes from Sio River. Uganda´s Sigulu Island is below image center.

Depois de um grande aumento dos negócios e atividade de pesca para exportação nos anos 80 e 90, agora o Lago Vitória enfrenta severos problemas de poluição e sobrepesca (pesca predatória) (1) / After a fishing boom in the 80s and 90s, Lake Victoria now faces severe polution and overfishing problems (1).

Questões diplomáticas recentes entre o Quênia e Uganda, em Janeiro de 2018, ilustram bem essa situação, com pescadores de ambos os lados sendo presos por pesca ilegal na região das Ilhas Sigulu, mostradas na imagem (2) / This is well illustrated by a recent, January 2018, diplomatic row, involving Kenyan and Ugandan fishermen arrests by both sides at Sigulu Islands region, shown in image (2).

35 milhões de pessoas na Uganda, Quênia e Tanzania dependem da pesca no Lago Vitória para sobrevivência / 35 million people in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, depend on Lake Victoria fisheries for survival.

Note que o Norte nessa imagem está à esquerda / Note that image North is to the left.

1. www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2015/03/la... 2. www.nation.co.ke/news/Fishing-in-troubled-waters-of-Lake-...

Imagem / Image CBERS4 MUX Coordenadas do centro da imagem / Image center: 0°05'18.1"N 33°54'42.9"E Data / Date: 14-05-2018 / 2018-14-05 RGB 765 (cor verdadeira / true color) Cena / Scene: 077/100 Autor / Author: Oton Barros (DSR/OBT/INPE)

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