A Baseline Report for the Kenyan Small and Medium Marine Pelagic Fishery.

This study focused on collating fisheries information small and medium pelagic fisheries of the Kenya’s coast through literature review and analysing available fisheries catch data, mainly from Ministry of fisheries development. Information on mesh sizes for gillnets was collected by visiting or interviewing fisheries officers at key fish landing sites that target small and medium pelagic fisheries. Development of this report was guided by specific objectives (ToRs) listed on Appendix 7. Based on the national data gap-analyses report on pelagic fishes of the 9 countries of the WIO was used to guide the categorisation of different pelagic fisheries groups.