Chinese Fish Floods Kisumu Market

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@gashwin, ni Chinese fish ama fish from China? Ama wacha tu!!!

Chinese fish floods Kisumu markets By Kevin Ogutu Updated Mon, July 4th 2016 at 08:44 GMT +3 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Send by mail Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Plus Share on Linkedin Nyanza, which boasts of Africa’s largest fresh water lake, is now importing fish from China to satisfy its domestic demand. A spot check by The Standard confirmed that fish from China has flooded the market. Nationally, Turkana has a new market in Nyanza for its dried and smoked fish which is trucked into Kisumu. Fish processing companies in Kisumu have scaled down their operations due to lack of fish from Lake Victoria and are instead importing the commodity from China. East African Sea Food Limited (EASF), which also processes Nile perch (from Lake Victoria) for export to the European Union markets, has been importing tilapia from China for the Kisumu market for the last three months to address the reported deficit. READ MORE Fishermen toil to catch fish which they never taste Gloom for fishing industry as processing companies close Governor Ranguma hits back at MCAs The imported tilapia is packaged, frozen and imported to Kenya by Zhangzou Longyi Food Company Limited. East African Sea Food Limited is labelled as its Kenya agent. The Standard bought a carton of fish at the Kisumu go-down for Sh2,000. One 10kg carton carries 60 pieces of tilapia, each weighing between 200-300 grammes. This means a piece of the imported tilapia goes for Sh30 in the market. This is cheaper than the local tilapia which cost between Sh100 and Sh200. When we visited the company premises on Sabuni Road, a big crowd of buyers was waiting to purchase the fish which is sold in cartons. GROWING DEMAND A source at EASF who spoke confidentially said that the company’s decision to start importing tilapia was informed by the growing demand for tilapia against a decline in fish catch in the lake. “It is the businessmen who were finding it hard getting the fish right here who requested us to import on their behalf,” the source said. The company serves both retailers and individual buyers. “We are doing a clean business. We are paying taxes and following rules,” the source added but declined to disclose the quantity of fish that they bring to Kisumu from China. The imported fish is also sold in huge volumes at the Kisumu’s retail fish market.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000207446/chinese-fish-floods-kisumu-markets

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Nice. Free markets ROCK!

Juzi tu fish ya karibu 0.5kg ilikua mbao Lodwar kama ishachemshwa kwa mafuta kabla zianze kupelekwa Kisumu. Saa hii ya mbao ni size ya omena kubwa.

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sisi kwisha, wachinku wana tu DFHKMBHBL

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They also have a place in industrial area Nairobi, run by a mhindi my local supplier has been buying from them for the last three years.

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Declining fish in Lake Victoria mean only one thing. Rural Urban Migration. Kbera/Kibra, brace yourself, we are coming.

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Yea. But I thought devolution would stem rural-urban movement? Anywho, fish stocks have declined considerably in L. Victoria over the last many decades. There is too much fising! And I also thought some govt ministry/ department controls how much people fish from the lake. Like sometimes fishermen are forbidden from drawing certain species like omena for a given period until the stock is replenished. lakini wacha wachinku watusaidie since demand and supply forces are what control the market.

They are only helping us meet the demand, ama?

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Demandd increasing while supply is declining. We have to learn how to use our resources sustainably. Wacha mshina ajibambe tupate akili. Time the three countries sit and come up with regulations

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@introvert hebu chora chinku fis

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Introduction of Nilepearch aka Mbuta led to the extinction of some fish species

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Machinku are some the worst culprits in illegal fishing.
Some of the fish landing here has been trawled off waters in West Africa.
In that light wacha nichore fis Oga iko na stuffing ya madawa.

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Hio place iko wapi Naih?

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Those prices,perhaps we are used to high prices,perhaps not,who has seen how they breed tilapia in china? My two cents kebs should up its game or we might end up being the dumping ground of rotten stuff.there was a story a while back of meat from the '70s being found in frozen containers or warehouse in china.

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Nta

NNtakuulizia, its in Inda but I don’t know the specific place.

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Hiyo ya mchinku ukikula utahara sana. Inaweza kuwa ilikaa kwa fridge one month plus.

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Huyu mhindi ako na body guards 5 wenye wako na ma AK. Huwezi mkaribia. Hiyo is pure indication of maziwa ako nayo. Huko fish ile kubwa ya 1000 kwa mama Oliech anauza 150.

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