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How pollution and cages are killing fish in Lake Victoria

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Dead fish in cages at Lake Victoria. [File, Standard]

In the past month, massive fish kills have been reported in Kisumu and Homa Bay counties. Unlike in the past when fish in the lake died, the deaths occurred in cages.

In Homa Bay, cage farmers incurred losses in 90 cages comprising of 6,000 fish in each cage, translating to Sh108,000,000. In Kisumu, three sub-counties - Kisumu East, Kisumu West and Seme were affected with Othany beach (Seme) reporting about Sh40 million loss.

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