Dr Mahenge was speaking at a tourism
festival organised to promote Nyasa District as an attractive tourist
and investment destination with huge untapped economic opportunities in
terms of beautiful beaches along Lake Nyasa shores, exotic freshwater
fish and great potential for agricultural production and agribusiness.
“We as the government we will make sure
we open this opportunities through construction of roads of high
standard. Already we have announced to construct this road to tarmac
level so as to promote tourism and bring us more earnings,” he said.
Lake Nyasa is biologically the most diverse lake, containing
approximately 30 per cent of world’s cichlid species (colorful fish
which are easily seen in the lake’s clear water).
The Lake lies in the sided walls of
mountain ranges: the forested Livingston Mountains and Nyika Plateau,
which provide the magnificent view of the lake from far and the
landscape for hikers and backpackers.
The festival which will be an annual
event, attracted government and private sector leaders including
business representatives in the Southern Lake Zone. Lake Nyasa, also
known as Lake Malawi in Malawi and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an
African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift
system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
It is the ninth largest lake in the world and the third largest and second deepest lake in Africa.
It is home to more species of fish than
any other lake, including about 1,000 species of cichlids. The lake has
for millennia provided a major food source to the residents of its
shores since its waters are rich in fish such as the chambo, consisting
of any one of five species of the cichlid subgenus Nyasalapia.
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