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 ...

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 ...

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Maureen Jepkorir Cheserek received funding from the World Bank through the Government of Kenya for their Aquaculture Value Chain Projects of the Kenya Climate Smart Project (KCSAP). We also received ...

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 ...

At dawn in Tombo, one of Sierra Leone's largest fishing towns, small-scale fishers begin landing fish from the sea. A portion ...

Fish farming in Nigeria is a very lucrative and fast growing business. And many fish farmers in the country are making big money every month from sales of fish and fingerlings. Catfish farming is one ...

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 ...