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KISUMU KENYA: Fish stocks at Lake Victoria have been dwindling at an alarming rate because of over fishing. To overcome that hurdle, one farmer is tactfully combining cage fish farming and running a hatchery.
Okello Otieno has several fish cages in Lake Victoria and a fish hatchery along the Busia-Kisumu Road. Otieno says having realised the potential in fish farming, he quit a well-paying job to set up this project and the rewards are evident. Okello has gone beyond producing fingerlings to actually rearing fish in Lake Victoria using cages and selling it to the locals. At the hatchery, he takes charge of all critical aspects of fish rearing. For instance, he determines how many fish become male or female from the fingerlings hatched.
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