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Fishermen drag dead nets that were recovered from Lake Victoria during a past cleanup exercise. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]
Abandoned fishing nets and thousands of plastic bottles are common on the shores of Lake Victoria.
William Oketch, a fisherman at Dunga beach explains that disposing of the nets in the lake has been the routine for the past 10 years, but strong wave currents having been sweeping them away and “I lost the nest and the catch.”
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