Makemie Mabula

University of Dar es Salaam | UDSM · Department of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries

Stagnating capture fisheries and increasing fish protein demand necessitate aquaculture production to bridge the gap. Lake Victoria is a potential water body for increasing fish production through cage farming. The sustainability of Lake Victoria for cage farming depends on timely and holistic site selection. However, current site selection methods...

Estimating bathymetric information is vital for aquaculture and navigation applications. Free, high-resolution satellite imagery provides a cost-effective solution for routine bathymetric measurements. We tested six algorithms to retrieve water depth in the Mwanza Gulf of Lake Victoria using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery: the conventional Stumpf met...

Increasing demand for socioeconomic services and infrastructure developments, exert multiple pressures on coastal and marine resources, especially mangroves that occur on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam city. The study therefore assessed and mapped the anthropogenic threats and vulnerability of mangroves at Kunduchi and Mbweni. The threats were iden...