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Yes, I earn a decent living by selling catfish fingerlings to fishermen

Matured Catfish being harvested.(Photo: Nanjinia Wamuswa)

Most Christians do not eat catfish, referring to the Bible in Leviticus, which says, “Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams you may eat any that have fins and scales.” Catfish does not have scales.

But other fish types find catfish delicious and fishermen use its fingerlings as bait in deep waters of Lake Victoria. That is how Joel Aduma reaps big from his catfish farming.

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