JubaLens builds the intelligence layer for Somali fisheries and the Juba Valley economy — monitoring catch, prices, trade flows, and market activity from the ground up.
International organizations produce reports from brief visits and secondary sources. Nobody stays long enough to know what's actually happening.
Government figures for catch volumes are largely guesswork. The Ministry of Fisheries lacks the infrastructure to verify what's harvested.
Foreign vessels harvest an estimated 13,000 metric tons annually — but without independent monitoring, nobody knows for certain. The number could be twice as high.
Local fishermen and traders operate in a data vacuum — no reliable prices, no demand signals, no visibility into what the market is actually doing.
Local reporters in Kismayo and the Juba Valley record daily catch data, market prices, and vessel activity. Real people, real locations, real transactions — every day.
Data from multiple sources — fishermen, traders, port agents, satellite — is cross-referenced and synthesized into reports that don't exist anywhere else.
Weekly reports, market dashboards, and on-demand analysis delivered to investors, policymakers, development organizations, and traders who need ground truth.
Species, quantity, gear type — recorded at landing sites across Kismayo, Jilib, Afmadow
Wholesale and retail prices for fish, crops, and livestock updated weekly
Export routes, cargo volumes, destination markets, pricing by route
Monitoring licensed and unlicensed vessels in Somali waters
Seasonal weather, sea state, catch cycles — what affects supply
Sesame prices, livestock values, labor wages — the Juba Valley economy in full
In 2024, Somalia became the newest member of the EAC. A World Bank infrastructure project ($50M, "Badmaal") is building fishing jetties and landing bays along the coast. The Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy is issuing new vessel licensing guidelines. The window for establishing independent intelligence is now — before the official systems calcify.
Somalia's entry into the EAC creates new trade routes and investor interest — all needing data that doesn't exist.
$50M World Bank project is building landing infrastructure — this is the moment to put data systems in place.
Updated SOPs for foreign vessel licensing create demand for independent catch verification.
Somalis in Nairobi, Dubai, London, Minneapolis are investing back — they need ground-level intelligence on where capital can flow.
“Somalia has the capacity to generate at least $2 billion annually from its fisheries. The country could harvest well over 200,000 metric tons of fish per year if it reached its sustainable potential.”— Dr. Abdiaziz Hussein Hassan, Somali National University
JubaLens is building the dataset that should exist — independent, verified, ground-level intelligence on the real economy of the Juba Valley and Somali waters.
We start with fisheries because it's the clearest gap. We'll grow from there.