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Blue Economy: Poor fish eating culture undermines Nyeri’s Sh61m factory

President Uhuru Kenyatta is shown a specimen of trout fish by Justus Njue when he toured the Kiganjo Trout Farm on the slopes of Mt. Kenya in Nyeri County as part of efforts to promote the blue economy.

NYERI, KENYA: Fish farming in Nyeri is still lagging behind despite the existence of a state of the art fish processing plant which cost the government Sh61 million.

As a result of the low fish production, Wamagana Fish Factory, which is one of the four fish processors built in 2013 to promote fish farming in the country, is running below capacity.

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