Trout farming is a lucrative economic activity which helps to ease pressure on the Mount Kenya forest resources by providing income for trout farmers.
The Kagumori trout farmers group , the only trout farming CBO around the entire Mt. Kenya area, uses water from the river Nyanjara in a sustainable manner to raise trout to sell. They will construct 10 trout ponds, intake channels and drainage channels and also rehabilitate 2 of the already existing ponds and stock 25,000 trout fingerlings in batches of 5,000 per month.
The group relies on the river Nyanjara and therefore protect it from siltation by ensuring that the forest cover in the forest is maintained and improved as a mandatory condition thus they protect the biodiversity of the forest. The income generated from the project will also help to reduce the exploitation of Mt. Kenya forest resources especially deforestation for timber products.