Brought to Lake Victoria in the 1950s to meet commercial demand for its meat, the Nile perch devastated native populations of fish known as haplochromine cichlids.

Kenyans accounted for the largest number of fishermen arrested, with 935, closely followed by Congo with 557 and Rwanda with ...

A thriving east African trade in the swim bladder has taken hold of the local communities on the shores of Lake Victoria. It is threatening to make the Nile Perch locally extinct. The fish is a ...

[Isaiah Gwengi, Standard] James Omollo stares with pride across the expansive Lake Victoria and points at ... the last decade but the resilient Nile perch shrunk by 23 per cent.