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    "content": "These regulations are incorporated from international conventions which Kenya is a party to. It is, therefore, necessary that we move with speed. Otherwise, we shall still remain as a maritime nation that is hardly utilizing its maritime resources. As we know now, ships that do a lot of fishing in our waters are not Kenyan ships. We just give them authority to ship in our waters and they pay something like US $20,000 per year. But what they harvest from our waters is probably a hundred or a thousand times more than what they pay as licence fees. The problem here is that we do not have our own ships and merchant fleets that can do meaningful fishing in the high seas. What is blocking all that is lack of training and proper legislation relating to the registration and ownership of ships by Kenyans, or by people who invest in Kenya. Today, most of the fishing in our exclusive economic zone is done by ships from the East; companies from the East."
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