Fish landings
Data on fish landings (1982-2018) from the lake were obtained from the
monthly records of the Kenya Fisheries Department at Baringo Station and
by sampling the landings from January 2020 to April 2021. The fish
landings data represented catches from the entire lake and were derived
from representative catches from the northern, central, and southern
parts of the lake.
The data collected included weight (0.1 kg) and length (nearest mm) for
each specimen of species landed randomly sampled from the fishers. The
relative condition factor (Kn) was estimated for each species over the
same period (2008-2020) from the ratio of observed weight to expected
weight for length following Le Cren’s equation (Le Cren, 1951).