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Restoring Lake Victoria’s Ecology Could Help End Fish-For-Sex Culture 
By Andrew Wight CA Source: forbes 8/21/2023
Andrew Wight
Credit: Leonard Akwany
Local efforts to restore the ecosystem of Lake Victoria, the world's second biggest lake, also aims to reduce gender-based violence.
 

With fishing stocks collapsing on the lake, recent decades have seen the emergence of Jaboya culture where women, who make up 90% of fish traders, engage in transactional sex as one of the strategies to get access to the catch from fishermen.

 
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