Fish to market enterprise program ‘Ocean Work’ expanded from 2 BMUs to 7 BMUs in Kiunga and Pate conservancies. The program aims to increase access to markets for sustainably caught seafood, value addition, marketing and marine conservation as key pillars of community development on Kiunga.

Successfully established and demarcated 3 LMMAs, /fish replenishment zones in Kiunga increasing the number of LMMAs in Kiunga. All the 3 sites were mapped and demarcated with boundary markers (buoys) in an exercise that involves the fisheries BMUs, KICOWA, KWS, local fishers, and county fisheries department. A 2 weeks daily patrols and on-site awareness was also initiated to increase awareness to fishers on new LMMAs and the sites are currently enforced by KICOWA together with fishers BMUs and local community local KWS.

176 fishers from Kiunga were issued with new alternative sustainable and legal fishing gears to replace 11 illegal beaches seine nets (85% operating within Kiunga Marine National Reserve (KMNR)

3.82 tons of waste ocean plastics collected collected from the sea turtle nesting beaches in Kiunga and sorted for recycling process at Bahari moja plastic center. This bring a total plastics collected since 2019 to 67.02 tones.