April 2024 Visit Malawi Shinichiro Kakuma
From April 4th to 18th, 2024, Shinichiro Kakuma visited Malawi.
Designed a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of fisheries resource management in the absence of fishery catch statistics. Discussed indicators with a local resource management organization, completed a prototype of the tool and tested the tool on the resource management organization. Installed an electromagnetic current meter on the lake bottom to observe the flow conditions around Chirundu for one year. Conducted observations using a CTD (vertical temperature, fluorescence intensity, and turbidity profiler) and a lake bottom topography survey using a Deeper (a simple fish finder).