Africa is the only continent with large, natural tropical lakes, and boasts around 1.3 million square kilometers of freshwater resources, including lakes, rivers, reservoirs, floodplains and swamps.

Uganda has launched a regional workshop aimed at embedding newly developed global guidelines for sustainable aquaculture, a move seen as critical in accelerating growth in Africa’s fastest-expanding ...

Some fishers in Bamako, Mali’s capital, are raising concerns about dredging of the Niger River in search of gold. They say the combination of dredging and increasing plastic pollution is causing fish ...

AFTER you travel away from shore on a speedboat for about 40 minutes, Lake Volta, the largest man-made lake in Africa, feels like the open sea. Yet parts of the Ghanaian lake are actually a giant fish ...

Maureen Jepkorir Cheserek received funding from the World Bank through the Government of Kenya for their Aquaculture Value Chain Projects of the Kenya Climate Smart Project (KCSAP). We also received ...

Small pelagic fish, generally processed, sold and eaten whole, account for three quarters of the total inland fish catch of the continent but because of their low economic value they are not given the ...