The community meeting hosted at the Red Cross in Ukunda, brought together members of the Chale fishing community and the ABALOBI team to review and reflect upon the past year’s project progress, continuing this powerful cross-border collaboration.

ABALOBI’s Fisher and Monitor apps are empowering Kenyan small-scale fishers to track their catch, manage resources, and adopt sustainable practices.

Kenyan fishers are using ABALOBI apps to log 14 tons of catch data, enabling informed decisions, boosting livelihoods, and promoting sustainable fishing practices for long-term resilience.

The ABALOBI FISHER app was released to the BMU leaders in Chale to use as tool to help document catches.

After an extensive configuration process, the ABALOBI MONITOR has been released for use in the Chale-Jeza BMU.

In this workshop, the community decided to focus their efforts on their first management objective: the reduction of drag net fishing in their BMU fishing grounds.

The scoping workshop was conducted with 30 participants from the Chale BMU, consisting of fishermen and fish vendors from three local villages. It aimed to comprehensively assess various aspects of the small-scale fisheries within these communities.

After multiple training sessions with the on-the-ground project coordinator, adapting the survey to the local context, translating it into KiSwahili, and administering it to 35 fishers, the responses have been analyzed and visualized.

This one-day workshop, facilitated by WCS and ABALOBI representatives, kicked off the project.