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- Africa has traditionally depended on capture fisheries for most of its fish and fish products. However,
with capture fisheries dwindling and human population increasing, alternative sources have become
necessary. Although practiced for many decades, East African fish farming has been funded by donors
whose main interest has been on subsistence fish farming targeting the very poor. Consequently, no
structures were put in place to ensure growth of the sector thus preventing commercial aquaculture
development. Most East African countries such as Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya have initiated programs
for revamping aquaculture including policy changes.
Kenya through the Economic Stimulus Program
encouraged growth of the sector through helping communities construct stock and feed approximately
50,000 fish ponds. Extension services were revamped
through provision of motorcycles and training to
fisheries staff, farmers and hatchery managers. The
multiplier effect led to over 100,000 ponds
constructed in about two thirds of the country, the
number of functional hatcheries rising from 21 in
2009
to over 135 in 2012. Similarly, the commercial feed
manufactures producing extruded floating feeds rose
from 1 to 8. This has resulted in increase of aquaculture fish production from 4000 (in 2009) to currently
19000 metric tonnes per annum. Efforts to popularize fish farming through the‚ eat more fish campaigns‚
have increased fish traders customer base. Fish production levels and productivity are likely to increase across the country. It is necessary to empower fish
farmer cooperatives and develop standards for inputs
enabling farmed fish to access traditional and emerging markets.
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- Charo-Karisa, H., et al. The Role of Government in Promoting Commercial Aquaculture in Africa: Examples from East Africa. Visible Possibilities: The Economics of Sustainable Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Trade: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, July 16-20, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Edited by Ann L. Shriver. International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), Corvallis, 2012.
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- AQUAFISH, USAID, NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency, Norad, The World Bank, Hyatt Regency Dar es Salaam, NAAFE, World Wildlife Fund, United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme, ICEIDA, JICA, JIFRS, The European Association of Fisheries Economists, International Seafood Sustainability Foundation
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