More than 30 million people who depend on the lake are feeling the consequences of roller-coaster changes in the fauna and lake environment. For the fishermen of Kusa Bay, the women selling perch scraps in Kisumu, and all the rest of the 30 million people whose fate is tied to the lake, there is no place to turn. Even in Africa, where epic sagas of famine and upheaval are all too common, the decline of the fisheries of Lake Victoria is bringing great suffering.
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