Off the Transect

Naserian notices the county's official fish-catch data has been frozen for years while the real tilapia vanish. She recruits fishers, builds her own sampling record, and files a formal challenge against a decade-old protocol no one has questioned. A quietly urgent Kenyan story about what it costs to make a number mean something, and why a Grade 9 reader, standing at their own pathway crossroads, will recognise the weight of choosing to act when no one is watching.