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Figure 4.2: National Fish Production by Fishery Category
4.2 Fisheries Capture
Capture fisheries in Kenya is mainly from lakes Victoria, Turkana, Naivasha, Baringo, Jipe, Tana River dams, Tana river
delta and Indian Ocean and had a production of 143,828 MT with an ex-vessel value of Kshs 16,559,534,000. This
accounted for 86 percent of the national fish production in 2014. Lake Victoria accounted for 89.49 percent of all the
fish from capture fisheries in Kenya during the year 2014.
In 2014, Homa bay County contributed the highest capture catches by contributing 81,399 MT, followed by Siaya
28,519, Migori 7,899, Kisumu 5,556, Busia 5,468, Turkana 4,050, Kwale 2,643, Lamu 2,507, Kilifi 2,356, Mombasa
1,219, Embu 1,024, Tana River 446, Nakuru 341, Baringo 201, Marsabit 116 and Taita Taveta 115.
4.3 Aquaculture
The State Department of Fisheries has aggressively been promoting aquaculture development in the country to
counter the declining production from capture fisheries. Some of the achievements realized over the review period
include; developed a fish breeding structure with a holding capacity of over 200,000 brood-stock; procured 54 Fish
Feed Pelletizing machines and distributed them to clusters of fish farmers; procured 148 Motorcycles and recruited
286 Fisheries Extension Officers; constructed (4) Fish Processing Plants in Tetu, Imenti South, Rongo and Lurambi
constituencies; constructed over 69,194 fish ponds country-wide (46,824 fish ponds in 160 Constituencies countrywide
by GoK, and some other 22,370 ponds by farmers and investors and stocked them with over 100 million
fingerlings; increased national aquaculture production from 1,047metric tonnes in 2005 to 24,096 metric tonnes in
2014, figure 3. The 24,096 metric tonnes had a farm gate value of Kshs. 5.6 billion Compared to 23,501 metric tonnes
valued at Kshs. 5.5 billion in 2013.
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