A fishmonger at her stall in Obunga fish market. [Olivia Odhiambo, Standard] A stroll at Obunga market reveals a puzzling but increasingly common activity that has been the lifeline of several ...

“If you eat fish you will be very clever.” I heard this statement very many times when I was growing up. And I confess that I have used it many times on my children, especially when I want them to eat ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Overfishing on Lake Victoria has seen Nile Perch stocks drop 81 percent to 370,000 metric tons in 2008 from 2 million metric tons three years ago, "annihilating" the species, ...

The traders cite a litany of challenges such as high taxes, extortion by customs officials, delays at border customs offices, ...

Pictured on the left is the Nile perch, a voracious predator introduced into Lake Victoria by humans to satisfy meat demands in the 1950s. On the right, several species of endemic cichlids that were ...

Some weeks ago, I was browsing the fish counter at Whole Foods when my eye was caught by the legend: “Lake Victoria Perch.” It caught my eye because I, like many, am a sucker for that kind of ...

South African fisherman Andy Coetzee has his eyes set on a giant perch--a massive freshwater predator fish indigenous to the waters of Uganda. But just as he catches one, a nearby crocodile tries to ...

Entebbe, Uganda, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Piles of dead Nile perch have been washing up on the shore of Lake Victoria in Uganda for no obvious reason, threatening the livelihoods of the surrounding ...

Lake Victoria, which came under the spotlight in 2004 by the documentary "Darwin's nightmare", is not only suffering from the introduction and commercialisation of the Nile perch. A study lead ...

THE OLD fishermen at Cape landing site in central Uganda can remember when they first came, in the 1990s, to this sliver of rock that lies between a forest and the lake they call Nnalubaale. There ...

Lake Victoria, which came under the spotlight in 2004 by the documentary 'Darwin's nightmare', is not only suffering from the introduction and commercialization of the Nile perch: A study has ...