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

A study of East African coral reefs has uncovered an unfolding calamity for the region: plummeting fish populations due to overfishing, which in turn could produce widespread food insecurity. In a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Freshwater fish populations in the Kavango and Zambezi (KAZA) river systems of southern Africa are in decline, so many stakeholders met last month ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Africa's freshwater fish are disappearing at alarming rates, with a new report from the World Wide Fund for Nature warning that ...

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 ...

Fisheries serve as a source of employment for millions of people in the small scale sector on the coastline of Africa. Their fishing activities, in turn, provide food security to over 200 million ...

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 ...

For over half a century, people in Central Africa have told tales of the fish seen climbing waterfalls, but these claims have never been officially confirmed. Now, these fish have finally been caught ...

A specialist explains the complex surgery needed to save a bird of prey and what the public must do when finding distressed ...