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Technical Report

	TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROGRAMME
	TABLE OF CONTENTS

SUPPORT TO SMALL-SCALE RURAL AQUACULTURE IN WESTERN KENYA

KENYA

TECHNICAL REPORT ON GENERAL FISHCULTURE ASPECTS AND REFORMULATION OF THE FOLLOW-UP PROJECT.

Report prepared
for the Government of Kenya
by
the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

based on the work of

J.-P. Marquet
FAO Fisheries Consultant

in collaboration with

Pamela Achieng, NPC and Shem Obuya, FO

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 1996

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.   INTRODUCTION

1.1.   GENERAL PROJECT BACKGROUND

1.2.   TERMS OF REFERENCE: CONSULTANT AQUACULTURIST

1.3.   ITINERARY AND PERSONS MET

1.4.   ACKOWLEDGMENT

2.   MAIN ACTIVITIES

2.1.   ACTIVITIES IN ROME

1.   Reading project field report and technical reports
2.   Meeting with FAO's/Environment and Natural Resources Service (SDRN)
3.   Meeting the BSF approach - fish for food security
4.   Preparing revised main guidelines of an adequate strategy
5.   Looking for fish transport method for fish farmers.

2.2   ACTIVITIES IN KENYA

1.   Investigate fish markets
2.   Visiting all FPC and mapping them
3.   Visiting a large sample of ponds and fish farmers
4.   Using G P S location and training staff to complete wide sampling
5.   Testing portable aerator in the field.
6.   Local capabilities for innovation on sustainable fingerling transportation system from bicycle.
7.   Investigating local socio-economic capabilities recommended by Socio-Economist Consultant.
8.   Meeting with Assistant Director of Fisheries DOF and Assistant Director of Agriculture, APA of Western Kenya on practical collaboration in fish culture extension responsibility.
9.   Reviewing Prodoc in full collaboration with technical staff.
10.   Meeting UNDP as potential co-funding international agency

3.   MAIN FINDINGS

4.   CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

List of Appendices

• Appendix 1:   Fish markets investigation

• Appendix 2:   FPC and Main Fishculture Centre

• Appendix 3:   Technical parameters from visited rural ponds

• Appendix 4:   Global Positioning System

• Appendix 5:   Pilot study area

• Appendix 6:   LBDA Project area - a set of available at 1 : 50 000 scale

• Appendix 7:   Kibos Centre record

• Appendix 8:   Highlands in Western Kenya

• Appendix 9:   LBDA Region's Share in Agricultural Production

• Appendix 10:   Methods of data collection and analysis

• Appendix 11:   Budget for socio-economic studies

• Appendix 12:   Proposed workplan for socio-economic April - June 1997

• Appendix 13:   Workable arrangement for Special Contract of Service