Abstract
Observations of Industrial Shallow-Water Prawn Trawling in Kenya
Highlights
Industrial shallow-water prawn trawling in MalindiUngwana Bay, located along the north coast of Kenya (Figures 1 and 2), began in the 1970s after exploratory fishing surveys identified the existence of fishable penaeid prawn stocks (Iversen, 1984)
In 2010, a Prawn Fishery Management Plan recommended that trawling vessels carry a fisheries observer
It was not until this became a requirement in Article 147 of the 2016 Fisheries Management and Development Act that Kenya Fisheries Service (KeFS) observers began to work aboard trawlers; this article expanded the observer program to cover all other commercial fishing operations such as longliners, purse seiners, and deepwater trawlers
Summary
Observation Points 2016 2017 2018 2019 a 0–3 NM zone. In 2010, a Prawn Fishery Management Plan recommended that trawling vessels carry a fisheries observer. The first KeFS-trained scientific observers were deployed in 2016 on four Kenyan-flagged industrial trawlers licensed to fish in the Malindi-Ungwana Bay during the prawn fishing season. They observed and recorded operations between April 1 and October 31 every year from 2016 to 2019 (Figure 1) aboard trawlers that were fitted with double rigged nets of 55–60 mm and 40–45 mm at the funnel and cod ends, respectively. Annual trends in trawl catches and effort in Malindi-Ungwana Bay from 2011 to 2019 These industry data were obtained from the Kenya Fisheries Service
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