page_title: Silver cyprinid
section_title: Food
hierarchical_section_title: Silver cyprinid / Food
caption_attribution_description: English: A woman sits on the sun next to her fingerlings as she watches over the birds and awaits buyers to the delicious omena at the shires of a river in Kano Kisumu This is an image of "African people at work" from Kenya
context_page_description: The silver cyprinid also known as the Lake Victoria sardine or mukene, is a species of pelagic, freshwater ray-finned fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae from East Africa. Its the only member of the genus Rastrineobola.
context_section_description: Dagaa/mukene/omena from Lake Victoria is an important fish in the diet of people in eastern and southern Africa. The fish is caught during moonless nights and in the morning it is sold to women who spread it out for drying in the sun. This takes one day or more, depending on the weather. Unfortunately, the best catches are made during the rainy season when drying is difficult resulting in lower quality of the dried product. The lowest quality is however still usable as chicken feed. Drying is often done on the sand, on rocks or on old nets spread on the grass. Drying racks have not caught on, neither have salting or smoking. The dried fish is packed in sacks and traders take the fish to the market. A major wholesale market for dried dagaa is in Mwanza, Tanzania, from where it is transported all over eastern and southern Africa for use as food or chicken feed. Sometimes it competes with dried kapenta which is usually preferred though more expensive.
caption: Woman selling omena at the shores of a river in Kano Kisumu
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