Raise local production to cut Chinese fish imports

Fresh stock at the Ferry Fish Market in Mombasa. FILE PHOTO | NMG

It is worrying that Chinese fish imports now take 83 percent of the Kenyan fish market.

Data from the State Department of Fisheries shows that Kenya shipped 14.8 million kilos of fish from China last year, valued at Sh2 billion, up from Sh1.5 billion in the previous period.

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