Helping lakeside communities protect and restore fisheries
Africa’s Lake Victoria is a global biodiversity hotspot and the second most productive inland fishery in the world — providing livelihoods for around 4 million people. But overfishing, invasive species, habitat loss, climate change and pollution are driving many of the lake’s 400 native fish species into decline. Around 76 percent of the lake’s endemic species are currently threatened with extinction, including many that local communities rely on for food and income.