Secure Fisheries Project Officer Paige Roberts prepares haplochromine fish for sampling during a 10-day research study done by the National Science Foundation. [Photo: Maureen Odiwuor, Standard] ...

The Nile Perch is a predator and it started to eat most of the other fish. While the Nile Perch became the primary export of the countries around the lake - namely Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania - ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...