Children sit next to a bucket filled with fish on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo. One of Africa's Great Lakes, Tanganyika is the second largest in the ...

From 2020-2024, fish production dropped 20% in the world’s longest freshwater lake serving Tanzania and its neighbours.

A few million years ago, fish were swimming quite happily in Lake Tanganyika. The lake itself – now classed as one of ...

A tiny striped fish called Neolamprologus obscurus only found in Lake Tanganyika in Zambia excavates stones to create shelter and increase the abundance of food for all fish in the group. This ...

Climate warming reduces fish production and benthic habitat in Lake Tanganyika, one of the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2016; 201603237 ...

Our story begins in 1954, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in then Belgian Congo, with a little paper about fish diets titled “A Curious Ecological ‘Niche’ among the Fishes of Lake ...

Commercial fishing began in the lake in the 1950's, and now hauls in over 200,000 tons of fish a year. But in the 1990s, fishermen and local villages started noticing that the catch was declining.

Abidjan - Africa's Lake Tanganyika has heated up sharply over the past 90 years and is now warmer than at any time for at least 1 500 years, a scientific paper said on Sunday, adding that fish and ...

Standing on the steep rocky shores of Lake Tanganyika at sunset, looking out at fishermen heading out for their nightly lamp-boat fishing trips, it’s easy to imagine this immense 32,900km2 body ...

Lake Tanganyika fishers fight for their future amid declining catches. Between 2020 and 2024, fish production dropped nearly 20 percent in the world’s longest freshwater lake serving Tanzania ...

Children sit next to a bucket filled with fish on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo. One of Africa's Great Lakes, Tanganyika is the second largest in the ...

Children sit next to a bucket filled with fish on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo. One of Africa's Great Lakes, Tanganyika is the second largest in the ...