Common Fish of Zambia
Popular Zambian Fish Zambia, a landlocked country in the south central hemisphere of Africa, despite no access to a sea port has been blessed with four large rivers, four main lake bodies, plenty wetlands and a couple man-made dams. As such most fish consumed in Zambia are fresh water fish and Zambia has over 409 different species and sub species of fish. Of these species the most consumed are from the following families, the Limnothrissa miodon (Sardines/Kapenta), cichlids (Tilapia&Bream), Lates angustifrons (Buka Buka), Mormyrids (Mintesa) and Clarias gariepinus (Catfish). Kapenta, Mintesa and Buka fish are fish found mostly in the lake tanganyika and Kariba and of the three fish, the Kapenta fish have been grown by commercial fisheries and not grown on a small scale. The other two, Buka and Mintesa which are endemic and only found in the Bangweulu complex, Lake Mweru and lake Tanganyika, are hardly produced commercially. The other common fish, Tilapia, bream and catfi...