Illegal fishing denies Kenya Sh10 billion revenue

It also emerged that Kenya earned Sh500 million last year through the licensing of foreign vessels to fish for tuna.

Kenya produces 2,500 tonnes of tuna annually, accounting for less than one per cent of the total volume caught by other nations whose territory stretches into the Indian Ocean.

The revelations came out of a workshop in Mombasa where experts deliberated on issues affecting fishing along the tuna corridor in the West of Indian Ocean (WIO).