Secure Fisheries Project Officer Paige Roberts prepares haplochromine fish for sampling during a 10-day research study done by the National Science Foundation. [Photo: Maureen Odiwuor, Standard] ...

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 ...

This study clarifies the impact of the invasive Nile perch on the genetic structure of haplochromines in Lake Victoria.

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Overfishing on Lake Victoria has seen Nile Perch stocks drop 81 percent to 370,000 metric tons in 2008 from 2 million metric tons three years ago, "annihilating" the species, ...