Kenyan fish cage farmers in Lake Victoria have suffered enormous losses following the death of their fish stock in early November, which experts have attributed to upwelling and pollution. Images circulating online and sent to us by our Observers show thousands of lifeless fish in cages in Lake Victoria. More than 364 million fish are believed to have died, with an estimated value of 1.4 billion Kenyan shillings (equivalent to 11 million euros).
Our Observer, Ian Omondi Otieno, is a fisherman in Kisumu, a city that borders Lake Victoria. He told us he had been saving to buy a fish cage for five years and finally bought one for 370,000 Kenyan shillings (3,000 euros) earlier this year. He had been hoping to make some profit. But all he has now is dead stock that has set him back the equivalent of thousands of euros.
