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 ...

Kisumu fish traders displays mud fish harvested from lake Victoria at the Kisumu municipal fish market The price of Nile perch has increased by more than 48 per cent as demand for the rare species of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lake Victoria, which came under the spotlight in 2004 by the documentary "Darwin's nightmare", is not only suffering from the introduction and commercialisation of the Nile perch. A study lead ...

Nile perch (Lates niloticus) are being illegally fished in Lake Victoria, Africa’s biggest lake, driven by demand for their swim bladders from traditional Chinese medicine (see also Nature 551, 541; ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Angling legend Andy Coetzee heads to Central Africa in search of a leviathan -- the Nile perch. Join him on an ...

Perch fishing offers the finest of simple pleasures. Among freshwater fish, the yellow perch’s sweet, white meat is arguably the best eating, rivaling fresh walleye fillets. These fish are also among ...