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).