The Department of Fisheries in Mansa district of Luapula Province has detected a fish disease in Lupende stream in Kalaba area, which is killing different species.
The dead fish has sores and the flesh appears eaten up.
Mansa district fisheries and livestock coordinator Mazuba Muzyamba said in a statement in Kitwe yesterday that so far samples from the fish have been collected and taken to the laboratory at the University of Zambia.