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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A stroll at Obunga market reveals a puzzling but increasingly common activity that has been the lifeline of several fishmongers and offered a livelihood for over 300 households. Here, the Nile Perch ...

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 ...

The 1990s saw the emergence of a thriving Nile perch export market from East Africa. This commercial table fish species is landed by migrant fishermen at villages that have sprung up along the shores ...

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 ...