Protect fish sector against competition

Supermarket shelves are adorned with eggs from South Africa, grapes from South Africa, oranges from Egypt and now fish from, of all places, China is finding its way onto our dinner plates. And that is the reality of a liberalised market.

Lake Victoria has been the largest source of fish locally but the supply has been going down steadily over the years due to over-fishing and wrong methods of fishing that introduce toxins in the water in a bid to make fishing easy. This has had the negative effect of making fish retreat further into the deep lake where fishing becomes dicey business.