Tanzania, March 27 -- Arusha. Fresh worries are mounting about the declining fish stocks in Lake Victoria.

Experts from the East African region and beyond are calling for interventions to reverse the trend.

The interventions, they insist, have to include protection of shallow fish breeding areas on the shores of the shared lake.

The director of fisheries in the ministry of Livestock Development and Fisheries, Prof Mohammed Sheikh, said the situation was alarming.

"It is extremely important that mechanisms are put in place to restore the stocks," he told fisheries experts who convened here.

He said fish stocks in the freshwater lake shared by Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya have drastically declined by up to 35 percent.

Prof Sheikh attrib...