Coastal groups plant mangrove trees to mark world fisheries day

Officers from various organisations at the Coast planted 500 mangrove seedlings to mark World Fisheries Day. [Jayne Rose Gacheri, Standard]

Efforts by communities to increase the fish population in the Indian Ocean are bearing fruit with the mangrove forest cover on Kenyan waters increasing.

While marking World Fisheries Day, officers drawn from various organisations at the Coast planted 500 mangrove seedlings at the Majaoni site that overlooks the Mtwapa Creek in Mombasa County.