Toward an Optimum Yield: Science, Technology, and Fisheries Development in Lake Malawi, 1930–1964.

In the late colonial period, fisheries science and colonial development programs converged in blueprints to better exploit marine resources throughout the British empire. Yet, the historiography of science and colonial development has focused predominantly on the management and exploitation of terre...

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Published in:	Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society Vol. 117; no. 1; pp. 3 - 27
Main Authors:	Wilson, David, Gough, Milo, Nkhoma, Bryson, Chirwa, Elias, Knapp, Charles W., Morse, Tracy, Mulwafu, Wapulumuka
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Mar2026
Subjects:	Fishery sciences Resource management Legal doctrines Lakes Mathematical optimization Indigenous fishes Environmental history History of colonies
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