FISH SPECIES
The most common species of fishes which lived in rivers and appear in dams connected with rivers are:
COMMON NAME | |
1) Tilapia species | Bream |
2) Barbus species | Yellow fish |
3) Barbel species | Catfish |
4) Mormyrids | Bottlenose |
5) Labeo | Fresh Water Salmon |
6) Seranochromis Nilotica | Bream |
Species of minor importance also exist, but these, and those mentioned above are not distributed in all rivers, therefore, the initial composition of the fish population may vary from dam to dam.