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Kapenta – What’s in a Name?

Dried Kapenta - kitweonline

Do you know the link between Kapenta and the Copperbelt province of Zambia? Kapenta is a popular small, silvery fresh water lake fish. It is also a name with an interesting history. The name Kapenta was coined by miners on the Copperbelt to describe two closely related species of Lake Tanganyika fresh water fish –…