This is the painful story of Lake Victoria — and there is a question that needs an urgent answer. How do we undo a colonial mistake that damaged the Lake Victoria food chain? Forget all the tales you ...

Karen Onyango is waiting by a not very well refrigerated truck near the Kenyan lakeside town of Kisumu for leftover scraps of fish. Her face is being splashed by bits of head, bones, tails and ...

Fish exporters in the country have defended their call for Parliament to ratify a law banning the local consumption of Nile Perch, a delicacy to many Ugandans. While appearing before Parliament’s ...

Rising pollution in Lake Victoria has contributed to a drop in the popular Nile Perch and Dagaa fish stocks, signalling a new threat to food security. A new report published this week notes that the ...

A thriving trade in fish maw — made from the swim bladders of fish — could lead to the extinction of the Nile perch in east Africa’s Lake Victoria. Demand for fish maw has spawned such a lucrative ...

“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 ...

Don Bosco, a fisherman takes his catch of Nile perch for weighing in Kisumu on December 1, 2020. [Denish Ochieng,Standard] It’s 11:00 am at Nambo Beach and Fredrick Otieno, a Nile perch fish broker is ...

A fisherman weighs Nile Perch from Lake Victoria at Kasenyi landing site in Uganda. The lake’s fishery product exports are likely to rise due to shortage of Pangasius fish in the international market ...

Newfound evidence reveals that the upsurge of the exotic Nile perch in Lake Victoria had long-lasting effects on the genetic diversity of various local cichlid species, report scientists from Tokyo ...

Sarah Ddungu, a former public health official turned fisherwoman, says the trade in Nile perch swim bladders has given her family a good life in her retirement. Ddungu operates four boats on Lake ...

Uganda's Nile Perch has gained a strong foothold in the European market over the years. The exporters called on Parliament to protect the Nile Perch, reasoning that it has a higher market as compared ...