Zimbabwe: Fish poachers overrun Lake Kariba

Source: Fish poachers overrun Lake Kariba -Newsday Zimbabwe THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has decried rampant poaching in Lake Kariba especially in protected areas. “Fish poaching in Lake Kariba exacerbates the challenges at Matusadona National Park as they also protect part of the lake which is a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention on the Conservation of Wetlands of International Importance,” ZimParks director-general, Fulton Mangwanya, told NewsDay on the sidelines of a graduation ceremony of 34 rangers at Matusadona National Park. “The major issue is they actually want to poach fish on the Zimbabwean side where we are employing proper conservation methods and as such the catch on this side is better than what they have on the other side (Zambia). “And the other side is not a protected area so they do what they want and you would find out that the catch is very low so they try by all means to fish in prohibited areas ...