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"content": "Having fished, now you have the fish but there are challenges. I look at the people at Silanga and Gengu beaches in Rangwe Constituency and note that when they come back with fish from the lake in the morning, a lorry is parked there waiting for the price of the fish to drop. In the morning, fish costs Kshs500. The person who can buy fish at that price, refuses to buy knowing that by around 10 a.m., the fisherman would be desperate knowing that later, the fish will rot and fetch nothing. The fisherman just accepts whatever price this owner of the lorry, who has been taking tea nearby and just waiting, is going to offer. Immediately afterwards, the fish will leave and the one who spent the whole night looking for the fish will get the worst deal in the whole process. This Bill, when it becomes an Act, must find a way of ensuring that the fisherman, when he leaves the lake in the morning, has a way to store his fish and power to sell the fish at the right price. Having stored the fish, it is important that we manage the way fish is marketed. Our fish can reach any market. We can do value addition on the fish. That will create more jobs where fishing is done. People who have fishponds need to know where to market the fish. They need to have the market regulated in a way that they do not have raw deals and they are not exploited. This Bill should address the whole area of value addition and marketing of fish. This Bill is going to help in a very big way. For the first time, give a fisherman and others who deal in fish, a legal mechanism through which proper management can be done."
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