SHOFCO founder Kennedy Odede organised a boat-riding competition to address fish-for-sex menace that has plagued areas around ...

Africa’s freshwater fish are on the decline, according to a recent report by the World Wide Fund for Nature. In Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, fish catches have dropped sharply as pollution, ...

Fish processing on Lake Victoria in Kenya generates tons of waste that harms the environment and leads to oxygen depletion and algal blooms that threaten native aquatic species. Science interns at the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Lake Victoria’s commercial fish stocks have plummeted due to overfishing, invasive species, pollution, and changing climatic conditions, among ...

Aquaculture – the farming of fish and other aquatic organisms – is the world’s fastest-growing food production system. The ...

Five fishermen died after their boat capsized on Lake Victoria near Dho-Goye in Usigu sub-county, Siaya, following strong ...

Local efforts to restore the ecosystem of Lake Victoria, the world's second biggest lake, also aims to reduce gender-based violence. With fishing stocks collapsing on the lake, recent decades have ...

Aquaculture – the farming of fish and other aquatic organisms – is the world’s fastest-growing food production system. The sharpest growth in aquaculture is happening in Africa. Average annual growth ...

Lake Victoria, the world’s second-largest freshwater lake, sustains millions in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Yet its fish stocks are rapidly dwindling, a crisis largely attributed to illegal fishing.

In Africa's Lake Victoria, researchers believe they've caught a fish population in the act of splitting into two distinct species. Researchers say this example of evolution-in-action is remarkable ...

KISUMU; KENYA: It is early morning when George picks his way to the beach to begin the day’s work — scouring Lake Victoria for fish. Like all the 35,000 fishermen who ply their trade in Africa’s ...