MWANZA, May 19 -- AQUACULTURES are important sources of animal protein, particularly for most of Tanzania rural communities and the world.

However, increased fishing efforts and excessive use of inappropriate fishing gears and methods, has led to overexploitation of fish stocks in many natural water bodies and resulted in dwindling fish supply.

Moreover, with a declining and stagnating catch from capture fisheries, amplified by expanding population and an increasing proportion of fish being exported as a source of national income has led to overexploitation by harvesting both brooders and juveniles that could replenish the stock for resilience due to illegal fishing.

Due to that challenge, the government has recently introduced solutio...