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 ...

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 ...

Dwindling fish stocks in Lake Victoria have sparked fights among fishermen competing for the scarce resources. The situation has seen rival groups destroy each others' fishing gear. The rivalry is ...

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 ...

Thousands of tilapia have died in cage farms on Lake Victoria in Africa, dealing a major blow to fish farmers already struggling under a year-long regulatory gap, reports The Star. At Dunga Beach in ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A man carries fish at Usenge beach.[Isaiah Gwengi, Standard] Some years back, fish was an ...

Around the islands inside Lake Victoria, Tanzania, two new species of fish are on the hunt for snails. Omar via Unsplash In Lake Victoria, the largest tropical lake in the world, rocky outcrops ...

Aquaculture—the farming of fish and other aquatic organisms—is the world's fastest-growing food production system. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The sharpest growth ...