Foreign trawlers and vessels operating within Kenya’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) are now expected to employ Kenyan crew, who have been trained by the government as part of developing and building the Blue Economy through job creation.
Kenya recently partnered with a Namibian company using two of their flagged vessels and the Bandari Maritime Academy to train the first batch of 400 youths in deep sea operations. The country licenses 70 fishing vessels to operate in its deep sea, with most of them being foreign-owned — China, Seychelles, Italy, Taiwan, and Hong Kong-flagged vessels.
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