Africa’s freshwater fish are on the decline, according to a recent report by the World Wide Fund for Nature. In Lake Victoria ...

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 ...

On Lake Victoria, attracting baitfish with lanterns extends as far back as anyone can remember. But overfishing may jeopardize the tradition. As night settles, a fisherman of silver cyprinid readies a ...

Derrick Omondi is seated at his boat as he waits to serve a group of women who have waded through the water to purchase fish from him. [Anne Atieno, Standard] Derrick Omondi is seated at his boat as ...

The mass deaths, which mainly affected cage fish farmers, saw fish estimated at about five months littered across the shoreline, with locals worried about possible contamination. - Kenya breaking news ...

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.

GEITA: TANZANIA National Parks Authority (TANAPA) has put in place a special plan to increase fish breeding in Lake Victoria, ...

On Uganda’s side alone, Lake Victoria spans more than 13,000 square kilometres, with 6,000 landing sites, each hosting 300 to 500 people ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. It might be surprising to learn that, in a lake as large as Victoria, a single fish could shape so much of East Africa’s history, culture and, now, ...

MWANZA: THE Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) has launched an intensified conservation plan to restore fish breeding in Lake Victoria, whose population has been steadily declining due to ...

It is 7 a.m. on a chilly morning in September. Alice Akinyi Amonde is standing on a beach along the Kenyan shores of Lake Victoria. She makes her living by selling fish, and she's waiting for her boat ...

Lake Victoria continues to feed millions with fish and water. But it also has the power to nourish our sense of belonging, if ...