Up to 1,500 fishers drown on Lake Victoria every year, an estimated 1,000 of them during bad weather. We identified 141 fisher drowning deaths across 43 landing sites.

Well, Lake Victoria is famous for many things since the days of the British Empire, and unspoiled looms not large at all. The scientific literature is pretty clear about this, tending to titles ...

In the 1970s there were 50,000 fishermen and 12,000 fishing boats on Lake Victoria. Today, according to the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation (LVFO), the body charged by the East African ...

This isn’t the only problem besetting Lake Victoria, which is more than 300 kilometres wide and the largest by area in Africa. Climate change is causing it to steadily dry up, ...

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 ...

Lake Victoria is also the source of one of the River Nile’s major tributaries, the White Nile. About 250 million people rely on the Nile in Ethiopia, Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt.

Emily J. Beverly receives funding from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, and the Leakey Foundation. Lake Victoria, in East Africa, is the world’s largest tropical freshwater ...