since then it has caused serious difficulties for fishing boats and other vessels on lake victoria. what we're doing you know and i do many of our colleagues have had problems while fishing on the lake they sometimes get stuck recently some fishermen got stuck on the lake and the kenyan government had to send a helicopter to rescue them. lake victoria is shared with tanzania and uganda which on the kenyan side alone hyacinth covers roughly five percent of the water surface the plans affect fishery production and the fishermen are struggling to fill their nets. if the shoe. was more you could. do. it from the pool to the room and some people did you see you go through the mantel piece with pride to supply. at the market in the. gap between local demand on the lake supply is filled by frozen tilapia fillets imported from china after kenya's president bans the imports last year a shortage of fish has now forced the government to lift the restrictions it's clear kenya's appetite for fish is not going away. now and care about our look stones we male grooming is a growing industry and in g

across it plants native to south america its spread abroad and is believed to have first reached lake victoria and the one nine hundred ninety s. floating down the lakes west and tributary that. since then it has caused serious difficulties for fishing boats and other vessels unlike toria. what we're doing you know not to many of our colleagues have had problems while fishing on the lake and they sometimes get stuck so recently some fishermen got stuck on the lake and the kenyan government had to send a helicopter to rescue them. by the end up what. lake victoria is shared with tanzania and uganda on the kenyan side alone hyacinth covers roughly five percent of the water surface the plans affect fish reproduction and the fishermen a struggling to fill their nets live. with these. with the more you put out some weed see the good. for you to force people to bring you home so much and some people did you see you go through the mind of these with guys with the supply. at the market in the city of kisumu the gap between local demand and the lake supply is filled by frozen tilapia fillets imported f

the mara region on lake victoria is well known to tourists who come to see masai mara and serengeti national parks what is less known is the tradition of circumcising girls that is still practiced here it's a taboo subject that is not discussed openly. the bishop of the catholic diocese of mo soma in tanzania was one of the first african church men to raise his voice against after. so i wondered if the valves which ina and ram were comma known as mama regina is the women's affairs representative for the diocese. where she has spent decades campaigning for the bodily integrity of girls in the region. here the cuttings has gone down and you know why he. is seen yet they tout. the baby they. tout as more than your. five from the town things getting tough it's tough although we have succeeded here but. to me they have seventy five percent. yes. mama regina is suspicious everyone here knows that cutting girls is forbidden in tanzania that may be why the cutter says she has stopped doing it how many girls has she cut she says she doesn't know any more very many. that we use our because the clevere

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ok so our next story is one about creating solutions it's tough for fishermen at lake victoria because stocks off wild fish are dwindling so many of them are turning to fish farming to make ends meet but breeding fish requires flushing farms with massive amounts of clean fresh water now a team of scientists from europe are working with communities in uganda in kenya and tanzania to get around that. mohammad has been fishing off they were going to shows of literally for more than twenty five years. we no longer catch fish like we used to. be economic impact on us. right now you can sit traps and come up empty just one cut away. in the old days we would get a good catch. the main cause for the depletion of stocks over fishing pollution from industrial activity is another problem these issues have made it harder to meet the rising demand for fish. this has prompted some ugandans to set up fish farms. one of the biggest challenges is the lack of clean fresh water. fish from outside the capital kampala. to fish farming you have to keep flushing your ponds all the time so you can imagine the

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