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. A study ...

Feb. 9 (UPI) --When the first living African coelacanth fish, sometimes called the gombessa, was caught in 1938, researchers were stunned. They thought the fish had been extinct for 65 million years.

Freshwater fish populations in the Kavango and Zambezi (KAZA) river systems of southern Africa are in decline, so many stakeholders met last month in Namibia to share knowledge and suggest ways to ...

As winter begins in South Africa, the dry season ends, and rains return to the Western Cape province. Parched washes become streams again. Wildflowers bloom. And around August, Clanwilliam sandfish ...

Dr. Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood is a Visiting Fellow at The Centre for Strategic Research and Studies, National Defence College Abuja, Nigeria Most of the large fishing vessels that operate in West ...