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Kenya: Why Govt is Seeking to Ban Chinese Fish Imports
Nation, 3 August 2021
Kenya will soon ban fish imports from China, the National Assembly's Committee on Agriculture has confirmed. Read more »
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Kenya: It's a Dog's Life for Kenyan Fishermen As Trawlers Have a Field Day
Nation, 3 August 2021
Kenyan fishermen have expressed fears that they will be locked out of earning their living in the Indian Ocean if the government imposes safety rules that will allow more foreign… Read more »
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Kenya: Taita Taveta Fishermen Call for a Share of Blue Economy Benefits
Nation, 3 August 2021
Fishermen in Taita Taveta have asked the government to invest in blue economy projects in the county so that they can benefit from the sector. Read more »
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Kenya: Open Letter to MPs From Fisher Peoples Counties
Capital FM, 9 April 2021
Dear Honourable Members of Parliament drawn from indigenous fisher communities Read more »
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Kenya: Covid-19, Chinese Dealers Drive Kenyan Seafood Traders Out of Business
East African, 8 April 2021
For years, fishermen and traders operating along Kenya's 640km coastline have earned a good living selling lobsters mostly to China, Dubai, and Singapore. For the lobster is one of… Read more »
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Kenya: Fish Imports From China Drop By Half to U.S.$9 Million
Nation, 16 November 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has handed Kenyan fishermen an unexpected boon after fish imports from China dropped to Sh993.62 million in the last nine months of the year, compared to the… Read more »
Why Kenya Wants to Ban Fish Imports From China
Kenya will soon ban fish imports from China as it has enough fish stocks in its lakes, rivers and the ocean, the national assembly's agriculture committee has confirmed.
MPs and fishery officials were on a fact-finding mission on the plight of fishermen in the Coast region in July 2021. They said they want to help the country harness the sector's potential and create job and business opportunities.
In February 2021, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya said Kenya's deep waters are being exploited by foreign industrial fishing vessels because local fishermen cannot work in those waters.
Artisanal fishermen have limited fishing technology for semi-industrial and industrial fisheries in deep waters and Kenya can licence up to 70 fishing vessels in its deep sea, according to Munya.
InFocus
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The world-famous Lake Nakuru was once a pearl in the chain of lakes that dot the great Rift Valley. Now the lake is no longer a sight to behold, reeling under the pressure of ... Read more »
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The swim bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish to control their buoyancy, and stay at their current water depth without wasting ... Read more »
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Kenya's Riting and Reres areas in West Pokot County have been nicknamed Kosovo, for the bloodshed that the community has endured for decades, due to cattle rustling and banditry. ... Read more »
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Fishing businesses in Turkana, Kenya, have many challenges - much of government support is not reaching these indigenous fishing communities, forcing them to sell their catches ... Read more »
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Pesticides that can cause cancer, mouth ulceration, dysphagia and abdominal pain, among other diseases, if ingested have reportedly been detected in fish imported from China. Over ... Read more »
Workers carry tilapia sourced from China at a fish depot in Kisumu (file photo).
