Even an empty jetty, like the melancholy Steeplechase Pier at Coney Island in New York, draws Russian and Chinese fishermen eager to netthe tiny fish that gleam in silver schools round the piles, for the little fry will catch bigger fish, and the bigger ones (mostly herring) are worth curing and eating.
No-one has yet studied thenet worth of thefish Lake Turkana produces, the benefits of the cattle pasture - and the costs that society will have to bear if those things disappear.