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    "id": 670355,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "breeding area is in Kenya. This is being killed by hyacinth and chemical pollution in Lake Victoria around the City of Kisumu and very little has been done. Hon. Ochanda was saying that people were playing around with insects and this can be done. It is a shame. Even the fishing practice as it is, is not controlled. People fish in the breeding areas and catch the young fish. One time I was shocked to go to the lake and see basins and sacks of fingerlings that were being sold at throwaway prices in what would have otherwise been lorries of mature fish. Nobody is looking at that. Even the fishing techniques themselves are dangerous. We are still using nets. Nobody is using trawlers. We have not moved an inch. Therefore, we must invest in this area. We must go into modern fish farming. I am happy that ponds are becoming popular. Fortunately, it is getting into other parts of the country. It has not grown in Nyanza as you would expect. Not even at the Coast. The lake has been exploited and there is little fish. The ponds are not being taken care of there. Whatever was put there has never worked. There is cage fishing. We have not even looked at the area of cage fishing. Even the little fish that we get as I said earlier goes to waste because we have no cold storage. We need cold storage for that and processing plants. As you were told, processing plants belong to the same people who are now turning around having exploited the fish to bring fish from China. We have to look at that. We have not invested money in fishing the way we have invested money, for example, in tea and coffee, to develop and create the market abroad. This has to be done. Even locally, this has to be done."
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