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Christopher Mulanda Aura
Affiliation : Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute · Moi University
- 54Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
Research profile
Christopher Mulanda Aura has 54 indexed publications (2009–2025). Their work appears mainly in “Lakes & Reservoirs Science Policy and Management for Sustainable Use”, “Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management” and “Journal of Great Lakes Research”. Their most cited article, “Integration of mapping and socio-economic status of cage culture: Towards balancing lake-use and culture fisheries in Lake Victoria, Kenya” (2017), has been cited 106 times. 16 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in United Kingdom, United States.
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- Dried fish provide widespread access to critical nutrients across Africa
- Sediment and soil source apportionment using geochemical fingerprinting techniques in the Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria
- Optimizing stocking density for enhanced fish yield in lacustrine cage aquaculture
- Disease and Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance for Nile Tilapia Pathogens in Lake Victoria, Kenya
- The Influence of Various Feeding and Pond Fertilization Strategies on Nile Tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus L.) Production and the Selectivity for Natural Versus Supplementary Diet in Semi‐Intensive Aquaculture Systems
- Unbundling Fish Kills Associated Losses and Compliance Aspects in Lacustrine Cage Aquaculture Farms
- Unbundling sustainable community-based cage aquaculture in an afrotropical lake for blue growth
- Possible lessons on rapid assessment of fish kills in cages in Lake Victoria, Kenya for informed decision making
- Assessing the spatial distribution of elemental concentrations in surface sediments of Lake Victoria, Kenya: implications for ecological health and management
- Climate change: A pointer to increased small-scale fisher drowning deaths
- LAQUA: a LAndsat water QUality retrieval tool for east African lakes
- Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood
- Response of fish stocks in Lake Victoria to enforcement of the ban on illegal fishing: Are there lessons for management?
- Considerations for environmental biogeochemistry and food security for aquaculture around Lake Victoria, Kenya
- Challenges to the lake fisheries, and factors affecting the effectiveness of a co-management regime in African Great Lakes: A case study of Lake Victoria, Kenya
- Emerging frontiers for blue growth in African Great Lakes: The potential for recreational fishing industry in Lake Victoria, Kenya
- Impacts of Nile tilapia cage culture on water and bottom sediment quality: The ability of an eutrophic lake to absorb and dilute perturbations
- Aligning small indigenous fish species (SIS) in policy and management for enhanced food security and nutrition: The case of the Kenyan Lake Victoria Omena fishery
- Mind the gaps for the best practices: Enhancing the management of Lake Victoria fisheries resources
- Lake Victoria’s bounty: A case for riparian countries’ blue economic investment
- Social Constructions of Health-Environment Risks: A Comparison of Fishing Community and Expert Perceptions of Cyanobacterial Blooms
- Small-scale fishing households facing COVID-19: The case of Lake Victoria, Kenya
- Economic analysis of tilapia cage culture in Lake Victoria using different cage volumes
- Evaluating spatio-temporal soil erosion dynamics in the Winam Gulf catchment, Kenya for enhanced decision making in the land-lake interface
- An overview of fish disease and parasite occurrence in the cage culture of Oreochromis niloticus: A case study in Lake Victoria, Kenya
- Citizen Science for Bio-indication: Development of a Community-Based Index of Ecosystem Integrity for Assessing the Status of Afrotropical Riverine Ecosystems
- Water hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes ) infestation cycle and interactions with nutrients and aquatic biota in Winam Gulf (Kenya), Lake Victoria
- Reconstructing Kenya’s total freshwater fisheries catches: 1950–2017
- Exploring the potential of small water bodies as an integrative management tool for fisheries production
- Kenya marine fisheries: The next frontier for economic growth?
- The Lost Coin: Redefining the economic and financial value of small-scale fisheries, the case of Lake Victoria, Kenya
- A GIS‐based approach for delineating suitable areas for cage fish culture in a lake
- A comparative study of the effects of pelleted and extruded feed on growth, financial revenue and nutrient loading of Nile tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus L.) cage culture in a lacustrine environment
- A century of drastic change: Human-induced changes of Lake Victoria fisheries and ecology
- Consequences of calamities and their management: The case of COVID-19 pandemic and flooding on inland capture fisheries in Kenya
- Checking the pulse of the major commercial fisheries of lake Victoria Kenya, for sustainable management
- Application of phytoplankton community structure for ranking the major riverine catchments influencing the pollution status of a lake basin
- Endemic Lake Baringo Oreochromis niloticus fishery on verge of collapse: Review of causes and strategies directed to its recovery, conservation and management for sustainable exploitation
- The extent of cage aquaculture, adherence to best practices and reflections for sustainable aquaculture on African inland waters
- Using fish landing sites and markets information towards quantification of the blue economy to enhance fisheries management
- Post-harvest interventions in small-scale fisheries: a boon or bane to food and nutritional security in Kenya?
- The use of unmanned aircraft systems and high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor tilapia fish-cage aquaculture expansion in Lake Victoria, Kenya
- Cage fish culture in Lake Victoria: A boon or a disaster in waiting?
- Spatial-temporal dynamics of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) and other macrophytes and their impact on fisheries in Lake Victoria, Kenya
- Exploring the demarcation requirements of fish breeding and nursery sites to balance the exploitation, management and conservation needs of Lake Victoria ecosystem
- Integration of mapping and socio-economic status of cage culture: Towards balancing lake-use and culture fisheries in Lake Victoria, Kenya
- Changes in pollution indicators in Lake Victoria, Kenya and their implications for lake and catchment management
- Spatio-temporal macroinvertebrate multi-index of biotic integrity (MMiBI) for a coastal river basin: a case study of River Tana, Kenya
- Implications of marine environment change on Japanese scallop (Mizuhopecten yessoensis) aquaculture suitability: a comparative study in Funka and Mutsu Bays, Japan
- The Effect of Three Different Feed Types on Growth Performance and Survival of African Catfish Fry (Clarias gariepinus) Reared in a Hatchery
- Risk assessment for organochlorines and organophosphates pesticide residues in water and Sediments from lower Nyando/Sondu‐Miriu river within Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya
- A preliminary macroinvertebrate Index of Biotic Integrity for bioassessment of the Kipkaren and Sosiani Rivers, Nzoia River basin, Kenya
- Difficulties of fishing at Lake Naivasha, Kenya: is community participation in management the solution?
- Macroinvertebrate Index of Biotic Integrity (M-IBI) for monitoring rivers in the upper catchment of Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya
Publication venues
- Lakes & Reservoirs Science Policy and Management for Sustainable Use × 11
- Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management × 6
- Journal of Great Lakes Research × 5
- Fisheries Management and Ecology × 5
- Aquaculture Fish and Fisheries × 2
- Environmental Geochemistry and Health × 2
Publications per year
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- 20225
- 202112
- 20205
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Collaborations
Partner institutions : University of Eldoret · Kisii University · Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization · Kenya Fisheries Service · University of St Andrews
Co-authors’ countries : United Kingdom · United States
Co-authors
- Chrisphine Sangara Nyamweya
- James Murithi Njiru
- Safina M. Musa
- Zachary Ogari
- Cyprian Ogombe Odoli
- Horace Owiti
- Collins Onyango Ongore
- Hilda Nyaboke
- Monica Owili
- John Okechi
- Robert Kayanda
- Kobingi Nyakeya
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