Observations of Industrial Shallow-Water Prawn Trawling in Kenya

Fonda and Omukoto focus on observations of industrial shallow-water prawn trawling in Kenya. Industrial shallow-water prawn trawling in Malindi-Ungwana Bay, located along the north coast of Kenya, began in the 1970s after exploratory fishing surveys identified the existence of fishable penaeid prawn stocks. Small-scale fishers were also targeting the prawn resources in the bay. Here, they analyzed the species composition of retained and discarded catches from 2016 to 2019 (using data collected by observers) and trawl catches between 2011 and 2019 (with fishing vessel log data provided by the trawl industry).