In a lakeside village in Kisumu County, women were forbidden from fishing. Until Rhoda Ongoche Akech defied the stigma.

Coastal East Africa's largest economy Kenya is losing billions of shillings annually to foreigners who fish in its waters illegally. Kenya is losing an estimated 10 billion shillings (118million USD) ...

State has been urged to address logistical challenges at Mombasa port and along the transport chain to make the country competitive As the glamour and glitz of hosting the Blue Economy Conference and ...

A team from the state department of fisheries, Kenya Marine Research Institute and Kenya Navy patrols the Kenyan coast on April 19, 2016. [File, Standard] Illegal fishing, post-harvest losses, poor ...

VANGA, Kenya (AP) — “Tuna is not for everyone,” lamented 65-year-old Chapoka Miongo, a handline fisher on Kenya’s south coast, from his dugout canoe. He’s one of many artisanal fishers in Shimoni, a ...

Kenya loses Sh10 billion annually to increased illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities, Agriculture CS Willy Bett said yesterday.He said this not only undermines resource conservation ...

At sunrise on Komote Island, 36-year-old James Lekubo walks his two children down a rocky hillside to the water’s edge, where ...

A proposed fisheries law seeks to tighten oversight, curb illegal fishing and ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The government of Kenya has lifted the ban on fishing off the Kenyan Coast near the border with Somalia following improved security. Coast Regional Coordinator John Elung’ata said on ...

In response to concerns over unsustainable and illegal catch and trade in East African nearshore fisheries, TRAFFIC has launched information boards to raise awareness of prohibited species among ...