The fisheries sector in Malawi directly employs about 60,636 fishers and indirectly employs over half a million people through fish processing, fish marketing, boat building and engine repair. It sustains the livelihoods of about 1.6 million people and contributes about 4 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 70 per cent to the dietary animal protein intake and 40 per cent to the total protein supply in the country (GoM, 2020). However, the bulk of fish consumed has historically come from the capture fisheries subsector. Aquaculture has been playing a minor role until recently. With dwindling volumes of fish catches under capture fisheries, particularly evident in the commercially viable and valuable chambo species, the country has over the past four decades experienced a decline in per capita fish consumption from about 14kgs in the 1970s to about 8kgs in 2015