A Fisheries Protection Unit soldier guards confiscated illegal fishing gear and fishermen suspected of engaging in the vice in Namugongo Landing site in Mayuge District in 2019. PHOTO/DENIS EDEMA ...

Fiona Nunan receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation programme, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council, Economic and Social Research ...

Local efforts to restore the ecosystem of Lake Victoria, the world's second biggest lake, also aims to reduce gender-based violence. With fishing stocks collapsing on the lake, recent decades have ...

Fishermen and cage farmers have been accused of over-exploiting Lake Victoria fish stocks. National Beach Management Unit Chairman Tom Guda and his Homa Bay County counterpart Edward Oremo said some ...

On Lake Victoria, attracting baitfish with lanterns extends as far back as anyone can remember. But overfishing may jeopardize the tradition. As night settles, a fisherman of silver cyprinid readies a ...

Five fishermen drown and three remain missing after a boat capsizes on Lake Victoria near Dho-Goye, Usigu Sub-county, highlighting persistent safety risks for fishing communities.