The Kenya Fisheries Sub-Sector: Nature of Legislation Practices, Administrative Weaknesses, Threats and the way Forward
The fish industry in Kenya is organized around community based fishermen, government support institutions, urban merchandising centres, small scale processing industries such as dying and frying and large-scale export oriented factories. However its prospects as a tool for economic growth is limited by factors such as lack of capital, low literacy levels, otter predation, and cultural-related constraints. Other economic activities such as agriculture, industry, and services are also beset with substantial obstacles emanating from legal impediments and poor administrative practices. The changing fisheries practices that have recently occurred in local fisheries have had socio-economic impacts, resulting to changes in different stakeholders characteristics in relation to changing fishing practices, with the increasing threat that the population in the fishing region has had deficiency and malnutrition despite large amounts of fish being produced due to the distribution activities and associated processing around the inland fisheries being destined primarily for the export markets and over-exploitation of fish stocks from the coral reefs around the marine fisheries. This paper looks at the current legislative practices and administrative weaknesses to assess the nature and genesis of the problems confronting the fisheries sub-sector in the whole of Kenya. The role of key stakeholders and policy making has been accorded special attention in this paper, to establish existing threats and weaknesses and ends with suggestions on the way forward for each category of threats and weaknesses.
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| Format: | Conference Material biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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African Centre for Economic Growth
2005
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| Subjects: | Fishery industry, Fishery legislation, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/8874 |
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| Summary: | The fish industry in Kenya is organized around community based fishermen,
government support institutions, urban merchandising centres, small scale
processing industries such as dying and frying and large-scale export oriented
factories. However its prospects as a tool for economic growth is limited by factors
such as lack of capital, low literacy levels, otter predation, and cultural-related
constraints. Other economic activities such as agriculture, industry, and services are
also beset with substantial obstacles emanating from legal impediments and poor
administrative practices. The changing fisheries practices that have recently occurred
in local fisheries have had socio-economic impacts, resulting to changes in different
stakeholders characteristics in relation to changing fishing practices, with the
increasing threat that the population in the fishing region has had deficiency and
malnutrition despite large amounts of fish being produced due to the distribution
activities and associated processing around the inland fisheries being destined
primarily for the export markets and over-exploitation of fish stocks from the coral
reefs around the marine fisheries.
This paper looks at the current legislative practices and administrative weaknesses to
assess the nature and genesis of the problems confronting the fisheries sub-sector in
the whole of Kenya. The role of key stakeholders and policy making has been
accorded special attention in this paper, to establish existing threats and weaknesses
and ends with suggestions on the way forward for each category of threats and
weaknesses. |
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