Commercial fishing activities in Lake Turkana, a lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, whose far northern end crosses into Ethiopia, face a bleak future due to dwindling stocks caused by heavy siltation and intrusion of fish breeding zones.
The scramble for fish is driving the Beach Management Units (BMUs) of Turkana community and their Merrile counterparts from Ethiopia to venture into deep lake waters, mainly gulfs, in pursuit of superior catch, resulting in often deadly confrontations and loss of fishing gears.
Environmentalists and civil society groups in the region attribute the miseries that ensue from commercial fishing activities at Lake Turkana to construction of the Gibe III dam built on the Omo River in Ethiopia, which supplies 80 percent of Lake Turkana’s water in Kenya.
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