Over 3,200 freshwater fish species have been recorded in Africa, with 28 new freshwater fish species described in 2024 alone. Africa has the world's highest per capita catch of freshwater fish: 2.56 ...

High levels of pilchard herpesvirus have been found in sardines involved in South Africa’s extensive mortality event, with ...

Banding together to sell fishing rights could generate economic benefits for African countries, which receive far less from access to their fisheries on the global market than other countries do from ...

In December 1938, a museum curator in a South African port city sifted through a fishing trawler’s catch and pulled out a ...

Senegal has pledged to expand its protected coastal fishing zone, offering hope to small-scale fishers hit by industrial ...

Africa is the only continent with large, natural tropical lakes, and boasts around 1.3 million square kilometers of freshwater resources, including lakes, rivers, reservoirs, floodplains and swamps.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research team traveled to South Africa's Umzimkhulu River in 2017 with a specific mission: find surviving pockets of the Maluti ...

Hidden in plain sight, dried fish are an overlooked yet vital nutrient-packed superfood helping to feed millions of people across Africa, a new study reveals. And new evidence quantifies for the first ...

“Drone fishing” is a relatively recent innovation in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Some recreational anglers are using personal drones to fly baited lines into hard-to-reach areas of water, or ...

Hidden in plain sight, dried fish are an overlooked yet vital nutrient-packed superfood helping to feed millions of people across Africa, a new study reveals. And new evidence quantifies for the first ...