The fisheries PS, prof. Ntiba has told us there is a shortage of 800,000 tonnes of fish per year. Our annual consumption is 1 billion kgs of fish per year.

That is why we need to import 800,000 tonnes per year. He knew Kenyans aren't very sharp and our idiot journalists will be quoting the figure over and over.

Until one sharp Kenyan PhD holder interrogated the figure in this article below.

http://www.nation.co.ke/...372-l4xkl4z/index.html.

BTW, this prof.ntiba was chief academic officer at puea where students graduated even though all the lecturers withheld the marks to protest delayed salaries.

Back to the fish story, we are five in my household including the housegal. So we are supposed to be eating 1kg of fish meat every three days.

1 birrion kgs?

That losely translates to 25kgs per year for the 40 mirrion kenyan!!!!!.....posibble

It's simple. The lie is so outrageous a nursery school kid can see through it.

I made a simple demonstration. Every middle class family and above in central kenya, needs to be eating fish daily to compensate the lower classes who can't afford their 10kg per month.

Fish in Kenya is very expensive. I would like to eat more fish but cant afford it.

@alphadoti, that's why am saying the lie is so outrageous to imagine but prof. Ntiba is capable of anything.

At PUEA, he mismanaged the place so badly, it's the only private university facing risk of bankruptcy. Yaani lecturers refused to submit student scores but all the students graduated.

Am from nyeri and I saw what happened when Moi deliberately set out to kill coffee and tea sectors for political reasons.

Jubilee want to kill the fishing industry for political reasons. It's sad and very few Kenyans are smart enough to see a lie hidden in statistics.

I thought dried 'ombambla' is cheap.

Really!!!

I still don't understand why Baba isn't running with this. The CORD PR machine is so poor! we might as well consider the opposition dead.

Now that @FRM2011 is one hell of a big fat lie!!

http://www.fao.org/fishery/facp/KEN/en

C&P

Kenya’s fisheries and aquaculture sector contributes approximately 0.54 percent to the country’s GDP (2013). Fish consumption has been declining from a modest 6.0 kg/caput in 2000 to 4.5 kg/caput in 2011. The value of fish exports was about USD 62.9 million in 2012, or about 5 times greater than the USD 12.3 million in fish imports. In 2013, around 129 300 people derived their livelihood from fishing and fish farming activities (including 48 300 in inland waters, 13 100 in coastal waters fishing and around 67 900 in fish farming).

Total fishery and aquaculture production in 2013 amounted to 186 700 tonnes, with 83 percent coming from inland capture fisheries (of which Lake Victoria contributed about 90 percent). Catches of Nile perch - the most sought and mainly exported fish species – seriously declined due to overfishing after the 2000 peak at 110 000 tonnes but since 2007 stabilized around an average of 45 000 tonnes per year. Marine capture fisheries produce less than 9 000 tonnes per year, comparatively much less than neighboring countries.

Freshwater aquaculture development in Kenya in the new millennium is remarkable, especially in 2009¬2010, making Kenya one of the fast growing major producers in Sub-Saharan Africa. From the annual production of about 1 000 tonnes in 2001–2006, the harvest of farmed fish leaped to over 4 000 tonnes in 2007–2009. In a nationwide fish farming mass campaign launched by government in 2009, the total area of fish ponds was increased from 220 ha to 468 ha by building 7 760 new fish ponds. Together with the improved seed supply and supports covering other aspects, it lead to a hike in farmed fish production reaching 23 501 tonnes in 2013, more than four times of the production in 2009. The main species produced in 2013 was Nile tilapia (75 percent), followed by African catfish, common carp and rainbow trout. Mariculture is not yet practiced commercially, despite its potential demonstrated by trials.

The Government is looking into ways of promoting aquaculture and using cured fish products for food relief programs in order to enhance national food security.

The main issue in the capture fisheries sector is one of overcapacity in Lake Victoria and the symptoms of overexploitation (increasing conflict, overfishing, and falling incomes) that accompany it.