Editing Protopterus (section)

==As food==
Until the introduction of the [[Nile perch]] to the region, lungfish typically comprised a small proportion of a fisherman's catch. Transportation to market from catching sites in Lake Victoria was often done with fish sun-dried for better preservation. Human consumption of the lungfish varies by population; the [[Luo peoples]] occasionally do so but the [[Sukuma people|Sukuma]] avoid eating lungfish due to a taste which is "locally either highly appreciated or strongly disliked."<ref>Kees (P. C.) Goudswaard, Frans Witte, Lauren J. Chapman, ''Decline of the African lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus) in Lake Victoria (East Africa)'' East African Wild Life Society, African Journal of Ecology, '''40''', 42–52, 2002</ref> As technology advancements such as [[Longline fishing|longlines]] and [[gillnet]]s have been increasingly applied over the past 50 years, the lungfish populations there are believed to be decreasing.