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 ...

What you need to know: Fish farming has been adopted as one of the key production sectors adding to coffee, bananas and livestock farming Ntungamo District has embarked on fish farming as one of the ...

In central Burkina Faso, a China-backed agricultural initiative is driving rural development through diversified farming.

A researcher in the west African country of Benin is working on how to make a better insect-based fish feed, aiming to replace more costly, less sustainable fish-meal. The global aquaculture market ...

Overfishing has put exorbitant stress on our oceans. But there is a solution: Aquaculture—otherwise known as fish farming—is the practice of growing and harvesting fish in a controlled, regulated and ...

Egypt’s fish farmers have struggled for years now. Media reports and industry groups point the blame at climate change and Cairo’s pollution of Egypt’s waterways. But for their part, farmers say the ...

A recent investigative report claims to reveal for the first time the poor conditions, including mistreatment of fish, in some Indonesian fish farms. While activists and industry figures are at odds ...

New investments in tilapia farming are expected to raise Rwanda’s per capita fish consumption from about 7.2 kg in 2025 to 9 kg by 2030 and 9.8 kg by 2035. Rwanda, like much of Africa, remains largely ...