fisheryvaluechainanalysis.doc

FISHERY VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS BACKGROUND REPORT – KENYA Manyala Julius Otieno P. O. Box 2064, Kisumu, Kenya manyalajo@ September 01, 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES iii LIST OF FIGURES iv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS v ACKNOWLEDGEMENT vi EXECUTIVE SUMMARY vii 1.0 VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS 1 1.1 Capture Fisheries 1 1.1 Aquaculture 2 2.0 PRODUCTION FROM CAPTURE FISHERY 4 2.1 Lake Victoria Basin 4 2.1.1 Production of fish in the Lake Victoria Basin 4 2.1.2 Production Technologies 4 2.1.3 Fishers 7 2.1.4 Socio-Economic Information 8 2.1.5 Age structure of entrants to the industry 8 2.2 Marine Fisheries 9 2.2.1 Production and Value of Kenya Marine Fisheries 10 2.2.2 Other crustaceans: Crab, Lobster and Octopus 10 3.0 PROCESSING 10 3.1 Fish Processing Chain 11 3.3 The export markets 12 3.4 Trends of Kenya’s fish exports 13 3.5 Expansion of fish-meal production in Kenya 14 4.0 TRANSPORTATION 16 5.0 FINAL CONSUMPTION 16 6.0 REGULATIONS 17 6.1 Legal and regulatory framework 17 6.2 Beaches along Lake Victoria shoreline and Kenya Coast 18 6.3 Community Management of Fishery Resources 18 6.3 Other Institutions 18 7.0 MARKET STRUCTURE 19 7.1 Market conditions 19 7.2 Domestic market 19 7.3 Export market 20 7.4 Marketing of Crustacean (Crabs, Lobsters and Octopus) 21 8.0 DATA AVAILABILITY 22 9.0 SPECIES SELECTION FOR VCA 22 REFERENCE 23 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Number of culture systems and area in square metres 2009 2 Table 2: Total freshwater and marine fish landings and value in Kenya (2007 – 2009) 5 Table 3: Industrial fish processors in Kenya, their installed and utilized capacities 11 Table 4: Cost and income estimates for a Nile perch factory (2008) 12 Table 5: Value of fish at fish landing 12 Table 6: Industrial processors using Omena as raw material, their age, installed capacity and product types manufactured (2008) and products and value from industrial processing using Omena as raw material based on 20 Kg packages 14 Table 7: