Overview of Educational Needs and Next Steps for Kenya`s Fish Farming Sector: An Educational Approach

Over the past decade, Kenya’s fish farming has experienced tremendous growth in production, contributing to improved incomes for the industry and animal protein for consumers. Despite improved management practices and technologies at the cage, hatchery and production levels, and improved availability of high-quality feeds locally, there are still major gaps between the availability of HE and VET education in fish farming and with increasing demand. This growth has mainly been driven by the large-scale cage farming around Lake Victoria.

We are proposing new content for the existing curriculum linked with aquaculture. Hereby, we focus on the development of business and economy education of aquaculture, i.e. supply chain management and or industrial economy and engineering. In addition, we highlight the status of aquaculture as an attractive career alternative for students. The purpose is not to totally rewrite new curricula, but instead add some vital aspects in aquaculture from the economic perspective.