For close to six decades, Michael Nyaguti has fed on the fish from Lake Victoria in East Africa.
However, he is now skeptical of fish from that lake — which straddles Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania — even when served in his home.
This is because Lake Victoria, where Nyaguti has been fishing for years, is heavily polluted, and he wonders if the fish are fit for human consumption.
“It saddens me to see what I love doing being threatened by impunity and pollution,” says Nyaguti, the chair of Magnam Environmental Network. This community-based organization is against the pollution of Lake Victoria.
In the recent past, Lake Victoria has seen mass fish deaths, a phenomenon now called fish kills, leading to the loss of millions of dollars in investments and threatening food security in the lake region. Read more…
