How Kenya coast guards are confronting illegal fishing on Lake Naivasha

Fishermen on Lake Naivasha on September 29, 2021. PHOTO | FRANCIS MUREITHI | NMG

As darkness creeps in, the shores of Lake Naivasha at Kamere beach become aglow with blinding lights. For the fishermen, who have lived around this bubbling beach about 25km South of Naivasha, all their lives, these dazzling lights signal not celebration but despair.

Daniel Onyango says these unwelcome fishermen cast one of the pervasive problems of illegal commercial fishing on this beach and three others, namely Karagita, Central, and Tarabete on the shores of the 139-square kilometre lake.

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