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    "id": 670352,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the constituency I come from has 11 beaches for fishing. Fishing is the main occupation for the young people. I therefore support this Motion but it is important to realize that fish industry is big and it is growing. In the consumption of animal protein, it is fish that is now the safest because of the small amount of the toxic oils that we find in other animal proteins and the valuable fats that are in fish. Because of that fish is becoming the greatest animal protein that is consumed and the market is growing. Unfortunately for us, we have not utilized this potential. If you look at the areas where fish should be the main occupation, these are probably the areas where people are poorest. Look at the coastal region, there is no other cash crop at all that the Government has put money on. Look at the lake region, the only cash crop there is sugar and we know the problem it is facing, yet the great potential of fish is not being exploited. Look at Turkana, it is a very poor region. Look at the region of Lake Baringo. These are potential areas for fish exploitation. We are not exploiting that at all yet this is a commodity that is gaining in terms of economic outlook in the whole world. People are still using the old techniques of fishing. If you look at these areas, there is massive exploitation even in small time fishing. As Hon. Ochanda said, this is the only commodity where the buyer sets the price because fish is a perishable commodity. The buyers come in the evening when you are stranded because you cannot go home with it, it will be rotten the following day. You look at the young people at least in our area who go to the lake into the evening and spend the whole night fishing."
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