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] ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forty years ago, the Nile perch was introduced to Lake Victoria, the vast freshwater lake that unites the borders of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. There, in a region some believe the birthplace of ...