Environmental impacts of cage culture in Lake Victoria: the case of Shirati Bay-Sota, Tanzania

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Table 3 Phytoplankton abundance (individuals/l) recorded at Shirati bay before and after the set of net cages

Taxa	Before stocking fish in cages		After stocking fish in cages
Taxa	Along the cages	Intermediate	Along the cages	Intermediate
Chlorophyceae	30,688,359.8 (0.9 %)	75,015,467.5 (1.2 %)	481,826.9 (0.05 %)	782,968.8 (0.5 %)
Bacillariophyceae	57,259,776.2 (1.7 %)	94,205,470.8 (1.5 %)	4,119,969.3 (0.40 %)	8,492,199.5 (5.6 %)
Cyanophyceae	3,247,559,634.7 (96.6 %)	6,118,703,481.5 (97.3)	1,020,780,887.2 (99.6 %)	141,898,028.8 (93.9 %)
Dinophyceae	25,319,335.6 (0.8 %)	0(0 %)	0(0 %)	0(0 %)
Xanthophyceae	401,522.4 (0.01 %)	0(0 %)	0(%)	0(0 %)