REPORT TO THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI ON A PROGRAM FOR FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

No. TA 2239

REPORT TO THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI
on
A PROGRAM FOR FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT

Based on the work

H.L.F. Renson
UNDP/TA Fisheries Development Adviser

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE) REPORTS ON FISHERIES

This document is Report No. TA 2239 in the series of FAO reports produced under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Since 1 January, 1966, reports produced under the former Expanded Program of Technical Assistance (EPTA) have appeared in the UNDP(TA) series. The numbering of reports in the UNDP(TA) series is unbroken and follows consecutively the numbering of the former EPTA series.

Since 1 January, 1962, those reports which concerned FAO technical assistance in fisheries have been numbered consecutively in a subseries within the general series. The numbering of reports in the UNDP(TA) subseries on fisheries also remains unbroken and follows consecutively the numbering of the former EPTA subseries of fisheries reports.

The present report is the one hundred and eleventh report in the UNDP(TA) subseries: FAO Fish. UNDP(TA) Rep., FEe/UNDP(TA) 111.

For bibliographic purposes, this document may be cited:

FAO/UN, 1966 Report to the Government of Malawi on a Programme for Fisheries Development. Based on the work of H.L.F. Renson, UNDP/TA Fisheries Development Adviser. Rep. FAO/UNDP(TA), (TA2239) : 53 p.

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
ROME, 1966

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INTRODUCTION

1. History of Project
2. Acknowledgements

PART I: LAKE AND RIVER FISHERIES

1. Background Information

1.1 Fisheries in Malawi
1.2 Fishing Areas
1.3 Species of Fish
1.4 Production of Fish in 1965

2. Organisation of Government Fisheries Services

2.1 The Fisheries Staff as at October 1964
2.2 Comments on the Staff Situation
2.3 The Reorganisation of Services
2.4 The Present Administrative Structure
2.5 Equipment
2.6 Housing