Aquaculture Tourism in Kenya, Aquaculture Tours in
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Victoria Basin Aquaculture Tourism, Aquaculture Safaris in Western Kenya, Lake
Victoria Aquaculture Safaris, Aquaculture Tourism in Kenya, Aquaculture Tours
in Africa, Kenya Agritourism Safaris, Aquaculture Tours, Aquaculture Safaris in
Western Kenya, Lake Victoria Aquaculture Safaris, Africa Aquaculture Safaris )
Aquaculture takes many different forms ranging from the
small hand-dug 'kitchen ponds' to fairly large earth ponds of 1 000 m2. Dams
and other impoundments used for storing water are often stocked with fish and
harvested periodically. Intensive commercial fish culture has been attempted at
the Baobab Farm at Mombasa using circular concrete ponds and raceways. Cage
culture, on the other hand, is being attempted along the shores of Lake
Victoria and in some dams in Central Kenya with some degree of success. The
main aquaculture activities practised by poor households in inland areas
include small-scale farming of tilapia. Aquaculture has lately become a source
of healthy animal protein in many parts of Kenya.
Aquaculture practises include the intensive, semi-intensive
and extensive systems. The semi-intensive systems form the bulk of aquaculture
production in Kenya, contributing more than 70 percent of the total production
from aquaculture. Intensive systems are few, while hyper-intensive systems are
being set up and are projected to contribute as much as 90 percent of all
farmed fish in Kenya by both volume and value. It has now spread to parts of
the North Rift, Central and Eastern Provinces of Kenya, which initially were
not fish growing areas.
A number of fish farmers who were farming at subsistence
level have turned into small-scale commercial fish farmers earning as much as
Kshs. 450 000 (US$ 6 000) per acre of water surface. Some of the commercial
farmers who are starting production want to produce both for the local and
export markets. Thus, it is likely that in the next three years aquaculture
will make a significant contribution to both food security and foreign exchange
earnings in Kenya.
Central Kenya Aquaculture Tour
This tour takes you to the heart of Central Kenya where you
will see on-farm participatory research in practise through government and
donor participation. You will visit the following major Government Aquaculture
Research Institutions;
The Sagana Aquaculture Research Station in Central Kenya.
At the Sagana Aquaculture Research Station in Central Kenya,
you will see how efforts are underway to intensify the culture of Nile Tilapia
(Oreochromis niloticus) and African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus). Several
experiments have been conducted and others are in progress to evaluate
different fish feeds, both as single ingredients and in combination.
Rift Valley Aquaculture Tour
This tour will take you to Moi University, Department of
Fisheries, Eldoret, Uasin Gishu District and Rift Valley Province. You will
then visit the local fish farmers in various localities within rift valley
province. (Moi University offers an MSc and a PhD degree in Fisheries with an
Aquaculture option. A diploma in Aquaculture can be obtained from the Kenya
Wildlife Training Institute at Naivasha. Other short courses in aquaculture are
offered by the Department of Fisheries at Moi University.)
Nyanza and Western Kenya Aquaculture Tours
This tour takes you to the fish
farming experts in Western Kenya:-
Lake Basin
Development Authority - Aquaculture Project
This is the
leading institution in Kenya in the promotion of aquaculture activities. Since
its inception in 1979, the Lake Basin Development Authority has since
rehabilitated over 5000 fish ponds and constructed about 1000 new fish ponds in
western Kenya. Its Fish Farming Centre in Kibos continues to provide an
excellent forum for adaptive fish farming research for the benefit of fish
farmers in the region. With its Rice Mill at Kibos, it is a major supplier of
balanced fish feeds in the region together with Dominion Farms.
Lake Basin
Development Authority trains practising and emergent fish farmers in the 27
districts in western Kenya. It also produces high quality Catfish and Tilapia
fingerlings for sale from its managed fish farms in Rongo, Kokwanyo, Borabu,
Kibos, Yala, Alupe, Chwele and Lugari. Kibos fish Mill produces high quality
formulated fish feeds which are then sold to fish farmers in the region. It
also provides quality Bait fish for the Lake Victoria Nile perch fishery at
affordable prices which are then marketed at Bait fish - Marketing outlets in
Luanda Kotieno and Marenga in Port Victoria. Apart from offering consultancy
services to the fish farmers, it also offers extension services to practising
and emergent fish farmers in Kenya. Lake Basin Development Authority exports
tilapia and catfish fingerlings to eastern Uganda and Northern Tanzania.
Dominion Farms -
Africa Aquaculture Project
This Tour takes you
to the Nyanza province of Kenya at the delta of River Yala in Siaya and Bondo
districts, where you find a fantastic modern farm - Dominion Farms. In this
farm an Aquaculture project is on going. Under the administration of Country
Director, Mr. Grahame F.H Vetch and Fisheries Manager, Enos Were, the
Aquaculture project is producing catfish and Tilapia fingerlings from Nine fish
ponds which are fully operational, expansion of other additional ponds is
ongoing.
The ponds acts as
the Breeding and the hatchery base for the supply of Catfish and Tilapia
fingerlings to the local farmers' ponds in Kenya and the East African countries
of Uganda and Tanzania. The Dominion Farms practise the cage and the
semi-intensive aquaculture systems. With the creation of Bob Greene Weir, a
large dam has developed on River Yala, the Dominion farms will be able to
produce tons of Tilapia and catfish for local consumption and export.
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