Unscrupulous fishermen plying their trade at Lake Naivasha will soon be flushed out if the threat by the county Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture is anything to go by.
According to the department, some fishermen have formed a habit of breaking the operating laws something that affects other lake users in the long run.
Speaking at the facility on Tuesday, Naivasha sub county fisheries officer Mathew Ngila noted that a serious identification process was in the offing to help differentiate between genuine from illegal fishermen as the department seeks to restructure service delivery at the lake to boost service delivery.
He threatened revoking licences of unscrupulous operations saying that their continuous ignorance of the law had led to numerous accidents some even leading to death at the facility.
“After the identification process, those who will have breached the law will only have themselves to blame because nobody is going to be spared this time round,” he said.
In a survey done by the county late last year, it was noted that some fishermen who had valid licenses were ignorantly breaking the law something that the Nakuru governor Kinuthia Mbugua expressed his concern tasking the relevant authority to help retain sanity at the facility.
Among the most flouted rules are fishing at illegal time and on illegal grounds, overloading their boats while inshore, using over and undersized nets just to mention but a few.
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