{"id":204162,"date":"2025-08-07T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-overfishing-forces-zambias-third-lake-tanganyika-fishing-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:11:14","slug":"zambia-overfishing-forces-zambias-third-lake-tanganyika-fishing-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-overfishing-forces-zambias-third-lake-tanganyika-fishing-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Overfishing Forces Zambia&#8217;s Third Lake Tanganyika Fishing Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Once-abundant fish stocks must be replenished, but the ban alone won&#8217;t inspire more sustainable lake use by local communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Lake Tanganyika is Africa&#8217;s longest and deepest lake, with a shoreline lengthier than Tanzania&#8217;s entire coastline. It supports local livelihoods and the economies of riparian countries through its rich biodiversity and central role in regional trade and transport. However, unsustainable activities like overfishing threaten the lake&#8217;s resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Lake Tanganyika&#8217;s waters are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508070472.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once-abundant fish stocks must be replenished, but the ban alone won&#8217;t inspire more sustainable lake use by local communities. Lake Tanganyika is Africa&#8217;s longest and deepest lake, with a shoreline lengthier than Tanzania&#8217;s entire coastline. It supports local livelihoods and the economies of riparian countries through its rich biodiversity and central role in regional trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601308:e1e338dfed583f08b605c739bce19a09:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7185,6919,5097,6920,257,41742,254,38533,4709,881,8982],"class_list":["post-204162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-fishing","tag-forces","tag-lake","tag-news","tag-overfishing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tanganyika","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601308:e1e338dfed583f08b605c739bce19a09:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}