Opportunities and Challenges in the Lake Turkana Fishery: Building a Sustainable Fisheries Sector

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints202206.0350.v1
• Publication Date: 2022-06-27T07:59:01Z
• Authors: James Last Keyombe; Julia Obuya; Winnie Owoko; David Namwaya; Elizabeth Katiwa
• Keywords: Fisheries law; Devolution

Turkana County's fisheries sector, which is entirely dependent on Lake Turkana, vital to the county's economy. The Fisheries Sector in County supports 1,500 households directly and 1,100 indirectly. Despite its economic social importance, sector faces numerous challenges such as high post-harvest fish losses, uncoordinated development approaches, over-exploitation of some lake areas weak links between research, management, other players. Furthermore, since start devolution 2013, has been operating without an overall policy legal framework. primary goal study was identify important management that would lead successful coordinated growth industry. To capture their perspectives problems potential usage Turkana's resources, semi-structured questionnaires Key Informants interviews were used collect data from sector's actors. A total 60 people interviewed, responses recorded Kobo Collect toolbox for later analysis. Secondary also gathered national declarations, guidelines, legislation have manage fishery resources. findings indicate a directing exploitation required order fully realize aquaculture County. will lay solid foundation creation framework strengthen County, necessary step toward achieving sustainable accordance with national, regional, international frameworks. By leveraging role Directorate Beach Management Units sectors' monitoring, development, promote effective coordination stakeholders at all levels.