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 ...

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A fisherman weighs Nile Perch from Lake Victoria at Kasenyi landing site in Uganda. The lake’s fishery product exports are likely to rise due to shortage of Pangasius fish in the international market ...

Rising pollution in Lake Victoria has contributed to a drop in the popular Nile Perch and Dagaa fish stocks, signalling a new threat to food security. A new report published this week notes that the ...

A thriving trade in fish maw — made from the swim bladders of fish — could lead to the extinction of the Nile perch in east Africa’s Lake Victoria. Demand for fish maw has spawned such a lucrative ...

Don Bosco, a fisherman takes his catch of Nile perch for weighing in Kisumu on December 1, 2020. [Denish Ochieng,Standard] It’s 11:00 am at Nambo Beach and Fredrick Otieno, a Nile perch fish broker is ...

Sarah Ddungu, a former public health official turned fisherwoman, says the trade in Nile perch swim bladders has given her family a good life in her retirement. Ddungu operates four boats on Lake ...

Uganda's Nile Perch has gained a strong foothold in the European market over the years. The exporters called on Parliament to protect the Nile Perch, reasoning that it has a higher market as compared ...

In the rural-urban migration that has defined the evolution of our economies, I am in the very small minority of people experiencing the urban-rural migration. In rural areas, the sense of community, ...

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 ...

Fisherman Tim Smith has told how he became embroiled in a tug-of-war with a crocodile to land a record six foot Nile perch. 21 October 2009 • 7:00am Tim Smith with his world record breaking Nile perch ...