On the shores of Lake Malawi, a crowd eagerly awaits the arrival of a white and yellow cedarwood boat carrying its haul. The crew of six deliver a single net of chambo, sardine and tiny usipa fish ...

Lake Malawi’s fish stocks are declining, but one community stands apart: around Mbenje Island, a traditional fisheries management plan has ensured thriving fish populations for generations, Mongabay ...

Researchers have found that chunks of "flipped" DNA can help fish quickly adapt to new habitats and evolve into new species, acting as evolutionary "superchargers." CABI has published a "Guide to the ...

"Sex for fish." That unlikely phrase is used in some lakefront communities in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world where men catch the fish and women sell the catch to local customers. In ...

As soon as you cast your eyes on Lake Malawi, the spectacular and bio-rich, 365-mile-long body of water that spans several countries along the East African Rift, you’re going to be itching to jump on ...

Dispatch No. 1, three weeks into Ross Exler’s solo paddling-plus-biking expedition to cross all of Africa’s Great Lakes, unsupported under human power. I have finished Lake Malawi, the first of the ...

Have you ever wondered why Lake Malawi is sometimes called the “calendar lake”? It’s not because it tells you the date, but because this African lake has some surprising numbers that match up almost ...

Lake Malawi is on more lifetime wishlists than it’s not, and no wonder why. A mirror-flat, sparkling surface that stretches across more than 20% of what is arguably Africa’s friendliest country, it’s ...

It’s not so much the water that Tanzania and Malawi are quarreling about, but rather, what lies beneath it. That’s because the sediments beneath Lake Malawi, or Lake Nyasa as it is known in Tanzania, ...