A Day with a Small-Scale Fishing Community at Kanamai Beach, Kenya
This photo story gives some insight into the small-scale fisheries of coastal Kenya and highlights some key issues that the AABS project is hoping to tackle....
East Africa
From little things, big things grow: Scaling Peskas in East Africa
Last week I stood in front of 250 fishers, fisheries officers, managers, and NGOs at a beach hotel in Mombasa, Kenya. I was there to introduce a new project that aims to harmonise fisheries data in East Africa and transform it into knowledge for sustainable fisheries and improved livelihoods. But I wasn’t there to give them technology and tell them how to use it - because that rarely (never?) works. I was there to tell them that we will build it together, and that this huge collaborative meeting of different fisheries stakeholders, was the best possible start I could imagine....