Massive fish die-offs in Lake Victoria affect Kenyan fishers

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Fishing communities living along Lake Victoria depend on it heavily for their livelihoods. For ages, fishing in the world’s second-largest freshwater lake has been a significant source of income for them. However, fishers suffered a whopping loss of 1 billion shillings ($8 million) last year after massive fish die-offs in the lake. Months later, they are still trying to grapple with the loss and attempting to get back on track.

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I haven't lost any fish yet but I feel for you, Very painful, As far as we can work out it is caused by algae blooms which take all the oxygen out of the water this happens because of high nitrates and phosphate in the water mostly due to pollution

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