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 ...

Fisheries researchers are investigating a sudden resurgence of some fish species that had been facing extinction after introduction of the giant Nile Perch in the early 1950s. Scientists from Kenya, ...

UNSCRUPULOUS fishermen who catch tonnes of immature Nile Perch annually have become a threat to the survival of fish in Lake Victoria. Fisheries experts say if this is left unchecked, the Nile Perch ...

The Nile perch, also known as the African snook, Goliath perch, Nile Lates, African Lates, Goliath Lates, Victoria Lates, African barramundi, Goliath barramundi, Giant Lates or the Victoria perch, is ...

Fish exporters have apologised and retracted their proposal made to Parliament to ban domestic consumption of Nile Perch. After the exporters under the Uganda Fish Processors and Exporters Association ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Lake Victoria was once full of diverse life, but everything changed when a powerful predator was introduced. The Nile Perch grew out of control, devouring native species and reshaping the entire ...

South African fisherman Andy Coetzee has his eyes set on a giant perch--a massive freshwater predator fish indigenous to the waters of Uganda. But just as he catches one, a nearby crocodile tries to ...