The Shire is a river in Southern Africa. It is the outlet of Lake Malawi and flows into the Zambezi. Its length is 402 km; including Lake Malawi and the Ruhuhu, its headstream, it has a length of about 1200 km.
According to Tolkien, the Shire measured 40 leagues (222 km, 120 Númenórean miles) from the Far Downs in the west to the Brandywine Bridge in the east, and 50 leagues (278 km, 150 miles) from the northern moors to the marshes in the south.
Nominal officials of the Shire were the Mayor of Michel Delving in the White Downs (by extension seen as the Mayor of the Shire); the Thain from Tuckborough, who was the head of the important Took clan; and the Master of Buckland at Bucklebury.
The industrialization of the Shire was based on Tolkien's witnessing of the extension of the Industrial Revolution to rural Warwickshire during his youth, and especially the deleterious consequences thereof.
Thus, all fisheries on the river are operating uneconomically, and their continuing operation probably depends largely on transfer of funds from other business activities on the part of the entrepreneurs, in the hope of a recovery in the future.
The majority of chambo seines on use in the river are short, large-meshed nets, which are rarely employed elsewhere, presumably because in other areas chambo are not caught in inshore water in such large numbers as was formerly the case in the river.
The Middle Shireriver is closed to fishing from its origin in Lake Malombe until the southern boundary of Liwonde National Park, a few hundred meters north of Liwonde Barrage.
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