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    "id": 541964,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "We also have the other regional laws with similar fisheries issues, as well as national laws on forest management and co-ordination of forest wildlife, water, agriculture and Kenya Maritime Authority Act, and the Merchant Shipping Act, which were considered to ensure that harmonization of management measures was incorporated into this Bill. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to just state that the access and management regimes in the exclusive economic zone fishing requires a stringent legal framework and regional co-operation for the country to benefit. Globally, all States are looking for avenues of increasing the contribution of the living resources to the economies and wellbeing of their people as the demand for fish and fish products increases. It is not difficult for all Kenyans to be using the fish industry, or aquaculture, as a means of making sure that there is food security in Kenya. Kenya gets very low returns from the exclusive economic zones of fisheries, and this has been an issue that has been discussed. We need to have this legal framework, so that we can make proper use of the exclusive economic zones. Besides all these, there is a need to support the rapidly expanding aquaculture development at Lake Turkana, and put in place the East African Community agreed actions for shared fisheries. An example is Lake Victoria and the ecosystem approach to fisheries for other trans-boundary fisheries. This includes some other smaller lakes within all the regions in Kenya, where we have small lakes which are shared across the border. We have such lakes even in my own constituency. The alignment of fish interventions to the Constitution of Kenya and other international fisheries conservation and management measures all necessitated a legal framework, as I have already said, that would adequately articulate fisheries issues, which are many and which can be economically very useful to the Kenyan society. This Bill has been developed following a participatory process involving all the stakeholders through workshops held countrywide since 2004. It is over 10 years now when we are seeing this Bill being presented here by our Leader of the Majority Party. All these consultations culminated in a stakeholders’ conference held in 2011. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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