Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aquaculture – the farming of fish and other aquatic organisms – is the world's fastest-growing food production system. The ...

The decision was made by British colonial fisheries officials to boost commercial fishing yields by introducing the Nile ...

For generations, Lake Victoria supported one of the world’s richest freshwater ecosystems. Beneath its surface lived hundreds of species of cichlid fish, many found nowhere else on Earth. These small, ...

Along the shores of East Africa's Lake Victoria, in Kenya, women fisherfolk including those known for being victims of sexual exploitation, are harnessing the Internet of Things (IoT) to help them ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fish processing on Lake Victoria in Kenya generates tons of waste that harms the environment and leads to oxygen depletion and algal blooms that ...

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 ...

KISUMU; KENYA: It is early morning when George picks his way to the beach to begin the day’s work — scouring Lake Victoria for fish. Like all the 35,000 fishermen who ply their trade in Africa’s ...

Kasensero, Uganda — On the edge of town, Ssebulime Kisakye is building a church. Behind the closed fish-processing factory, on a quiet beach covered in scraggly grass, he has erected a frame of raw ...

Lake Victoria’s fish stocks are struggling to keep up with demand. For instance, stocks and catches of Nile perch have reduced, from 340,000 tons in 1990 to about 251,000 in 2014. Though there’s no ...

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 ...