{"id":361572,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/361572/?format=json","text_counter":230,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"“THAT aware that the fishing industry makes a major contribution to the economy by producing over Ksh10 billion in foreign exchange and further aware that the industry provides employment both directly and indirectly to many people; noting that the potentiality of this sector is under threat due to use of non-scientific ways of fishing and continued use of wrong fishing gears due to poverty levels affecting the fishermen; this House urges the Government to establish a fund from which fishermen can be given grants and access cheap loans to buy the recommended fishing gear to help them acquire correct and scientific fishing gears."}