Aquaculture – the farming of fish and other aquatic organisms – is the world’s fastest-growing food production system. The sharpest growth in aquaculture is happening in Africa. Average annual growth ...

At sunrise on Lake Victoria, floating cages, giant square enclosures suspended just below the water’s surface, now dot the shoreline from Jinja in Uganda to Kisumu in Kenya, replacing the traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...

Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food security of the region, according to a report from the U.K.-based NGO Feedback. In 2020, the industry ...

Fish cage established by a women group in Lake Victoria at Nyagina beach in Mbita Sub-county on September 24, 2024. [James Omoro, Standard] A group of women operating in Lake Victoria can now breathe ...

It has been claimed that fish farming is a sustainable source of food that will help us feed the growing global human population while protecting wild fish populations – but this isn’t true. “Fish ...

Eric Teplitz was funded by an NIH T32 postdoctoral training grant and a Cornell Atkinson Center Graduate Student Research Grant. This study received funding from the USAID Feed the Future Fish ...