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Reduced catch in Lake Victoria cause for alarm

Dunga Beach Management Unit Chairman Joel Otieno at the shores of Lake Victoria in Kisumu. [Photo: Denish Ochieng/Standard]

The once flourishing fishing industry around Lake Victoria is on its death bed.

Thousands of jobs are at stake as fish population records its worst ever decline in decades, putting the Lake Victoria Fisheries, which supports close to one million Kenyans on the verge of closure.

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