Rio Fish Ltd

🎄 From our Rio Fish Ltd family to yours, wishing you a blessed Christmas filled with joy, love, and precious moments with your loved ones! As we wrap up 2024, we are grateful for your continued trust in our mission to transform aquaculture in Kenya. Here is to an abundant and prosperous 2025! 🎊 #MerryChristmas #RioFish #Aquaculture #NewYear2025 #KenyanAgriculture 🐟 

🎄 As we embrace the Christmas spirit, we can not help but reflect on Rio Fish Ltd's incredible journey since 2018! From our humble beginnings to becoming a cornerstone of Homa Bay County's aquaculture sector, every milestone fills us with pride. 🌟 Our farms across Homa Bay stand as testimony to sustainable fish farming excellence. What brings us the most joy? Connecting over 2,000 dedicated farmers to reliable markets, transforming lives and communities along the way. 🐟 Through resilience, innovation, and unwavering commitment to quality, we have built a thriving ecosystem that supports both farmers and consumers. Our success is your success – thank you for being part of this remarkable journey! 🙏 Here is to more growth, stronger partnerships, and continued impact in 2025! #AquacultureKE #SustainableFishing #HomaBayPride #KenyanAgriculture #FishFarming #RioFishLimited #AgribusinessAfrica #FoodSecurity #ChristmasGratitude

🌊🐟 Exciting News for Women in Fish Farming! 🚛✨ We are thrilled to announce that Rio Fish, in partnership with E-glow and Spiro, has embarked on a groundbreaking journey to empower women in the fish farming industry! Our mission is to eradicate the troubling practices of "sex for fish" and "sex for transport" by investing in sustainable transport systems tailored specifically for women and Youths. We believe that every woman deserves to retain their dignity and autonomy. By enhancing access to transportation, we aim to create a supportive environment where women can engage in fish farming without compromising their integrity. Join us as we work towards a future where women can thrive in the fish farming sector, free from exploitation. Together, we can restore dignity and empower women to take charge of their livelihoods. Stay tuned for more updates on our initiatives, and let’s make a wave of positive change! 💪💙

🌟 Pioneering change in Suba North! As the first aquaculture enterprise to spearhead this transformation, Rio Fish Ltd is proud to witness our women fish traders evolve into powerful entrepreneurs through our innovative cooperative movement. 💪 Last week marked a milestone as we kicked off pre-registration training, paving the way for direct partnerships and enhanced financial opportunities. By transitioning from informal groups to structured SACCOs, we are not just changing structures – we are revolutionizing livelihoods! 🎯 Did you know? Women-led cooperatives show 25% higher productivity and better loan repayment rates in agricultural and aquaculture sectors! 📈 Want to be part of this transformative journey? Whether you are an impact investor, development partner, or passionate about women's economic empowerment, let us connect and create lasting change together! #WomenInBusiness #Cooperatives #FisheriesKenya #EconomicEmpowerment #SustainingLivelihoods 🐟

🌊 Collaboration meets innovation! last week, the incredible Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) OFFICIAL team from Kisumu dropped by our Rio Fish Ltd farm for an exciting baseline assessment of the INNOECOFOOD project. 🐟 Our women-led team hosted a dynamic focus group discussion that is set to revolutionize aquaculture and food sustainability in the region! Highlighting the power of local expertise and scientific collaboration, we are proud to be one of the identified living labs driving meaningful change. Our commitment to empowering women in aquaculture continues to break barriers and create opportunities. 💪 Thrilled to be part of this transformative journey that connects research, community, and sustainable innovation! #WomenInAquaculture #SustainableFishing #AgriculturalInnovation #KenyaFisheries #EmpowermentThroughResearch 🌍

🌊 Sustainability in action! Proud to showcase our game-changing biogas technology at Rio Fish Ltd Factory. Transforming fish waste, restaurant scraps, and water hyacinth into clean, renewable energy – 40-50m³ of biogas daily powering our operations! 🔥 Proving that innovation can make our industry greener, one waste cycle at a time. 💚 Big thanks to our partners at Biogas International Limited for helping us turn waste into opportunity! #RenewableEnergy #WasteToEnergy #SustainableFishing #CleanTech #RioFish 🐟✨

🐟 Sampling day at Rio Fish Ltd is like Christmas for aquaculture nerds! 🎉 Today, we are diving deep into our tilapia cages, checking out our swimming superstars that are growing faster than my coffee consumption on a Monday morning. Did you know? Tilapia is the ultimate sustainable protein - these fish convert feed to meat more efficiently than any land animal! 💪 Our cage farming techniques are not just producing delicious fish, but doing it with minimal environmental impact. From water quality checks to size measurements, every sample tells a story of innovation and responsible aquaculture. Who said fish farming can not be exciting? 🌊 #Aquaculture #Tilapia #SustainableProtein #FishFarming #InnovationInAgriculture #RioFish 🐠

Excited to welcome Revitalize Homes and Gardens to our farm last week! 🌿🚜 Their "Revitalizing Kenya, One Tree at a Time" initiative brought incredible insights on environmental conservation to our team. Our farmers and staff learned crucial lessons about sustainability and protecting our precious ecosystem. 🌍 Rio Fish Ltd does not just focus on aquaculture, but we re committed to broader ecosystem sustainability. Through our partnership, we aim to plant trees and conserve the environment, understanding that land and water health are deeply interconnected. If there is chaos on land, it will impact our aquatic environments. 🔗🌊 Their passion for keeping our environment clean perfectly aligns with our sustainability goals. Together, we are taking steps towards a greener future! 🌱 A big thank you to the Revitalize Homes and Gardens team for their incredible work and commitment. 🙏 #SustainableAgriculture #TreePlanting #EnvironmentalConservation #RioFish #RevitalizeKenya #EcosystemBalance

🎉 Taste the Freshness this Christmas! 🎄 Rio Fish Ltd Fish Restaurant is open and ready to serve you the tastiest fish delicacies you will love. 🐟✨ Stop by, enjoy a delicious meal, or pick up fresh fish to take home! 🚗 Conveniently located just 100m from the road, we have got you covered for the freshest fish this festive season. Don’t forget your coolbox—we will provide the ice to keep your fish fresh all the way! ❄️ Open for breakfast! Come for the taste, stay for the quality. Let’s make this Christmas a feast to remember! 🎅🍴

When intentional people come together, they cause real economic transformation. Yesterday, on my way from Migori County, I dropped by the Rio Fish Ltd establishment at Opapo Fish Market in Homa Bay County. The fish facility was part of the economic stimulus projects set up by former President Uhuru in 2018 across various parts of the country. Rio Fish Ltd, led by the very able and amazing Angela Juliana O. and Joram Kabach took up and established one of Kenya’s best emerging players in the fish value chain. Working with over 700 women fish farmers, Rio Fish is already re-engineering and changing the narrative for women fisherfolk, from victims of predatory fish trade behaviors, to empowered producers. I learnt that Rio Fish offtakes 3,000kgs of fish daily from the farmers and sells through their outlets spread across various parts of the country, including Nairobi. They work with the farmers through close monitoring to ensure quality output, which they harvest and take the market. The women farmers are assured of inputs and market offtake, translating into meaningful economic empowerment for them. What’s more interesting? At the facility, Rio Fish has two large fishponds, where they don’t breed fish, but hyacinth! Yes they breed hyacinth. The firm has installed a bio-digestor where they mix fish-waste from their processing facility and hyacinth, to generate biogas that runs the entire facility! What an irony after such concerted efforts to get rid of hyacinth from Lake Victoria, terming it a menace. Rio Fish is positioning as a crucial positive disruptor in Kenya’s fish value chain and the lake region blue economy as a whole. It is these kinds of initiatives that grow a country and create the much-needed jobs and economic growth. However, for this to be achieved, there ought to be sufficient, commensurate and progressive macroeconomic policies that support the growth and not designed to overtax innovative hardwork and impede growth. For example, after all the efforts put by industry to revive and rebuild Kenya’s aquaculture sector, the Kenya Government has recently enacted the Fisheries Management Development Act 2024, with Regulations stating that from January 2025, every hatchery will pay an annual fees of KES50,000 for inspection and every cagefarm will also pay an annual fees KES50,000 plus an additional 5% of monthly and annual sales revenue. If these levies take effect, the aquaculture Industry is dead! It is grossly disheartening that the Kenya government puts zero efforts to spur and support growth of sectors that create jobs, but are quick to draft and impose laws and policies and aim to impose punitive levies where they’ve not invested at all! This is completely unacceptable! Why punish innovative solutions that grow sectors and create jobs in a country that is crumbling at the weight of unemployment and poverty? Mercy Chepkirui, Mercy Corps AgriFin, John Macharia, Sheena Raikundalia, Mercy Kimalat, Victor Otieno Agolla.