Fishermen desperate as fish stocks decline in Lake Naivasha

Youths from Airstrip Blessings fish processing plant in Naivasha prepare fish for the local market. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

At Lake Naivasha, one of Rift Valley's freshwater lakes, the air is thick with a sense of loss.

The lake, at the highest elevation of the Kenyan Rift valley at 1,884 metres (6,181 ft), is a shadow of its former self.