Fish farmers suffer as hyacinth chokes Lake Victoria

Some of 600 private fish cages in Lake Victoria's Anyanga beach in Usenge, Siaya County. Public and private patnrship projects in fish caging is fast revolutionizing the decades of underutilized Lake Victoria's potential. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

Fish farmers across Nyanza are grappling with losses as the stubborn water hyacinth continues to spread along the shores of Lake Victoria.

Whereas the biting drought has continued to dry the ponds, forcing many farmers to harvest fish prematurely, the stubborn weed has dealt a blow to those practising cage farming on the lake.