Two directors at the University of Iowa are using federal funds to train a group of 30 women in Kenya on the entrepreneurial skills to break into the local fishing business, disrupting the unofficial “fish for sex” trade imposed on the women by male fish suppliers, reports the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Increasing scarcity of fish in the region has subjected women who sell the fish in local markets to sexual exploitation by fish suppliers. Patrick Johanns, UI’s director of the Part-Time Business Analytics Graduate Program, and Kelly Bedeian, assistant director at UI’s Institute for International Business, are working with the Kenyan nonprofit Women in Sustainable Enterprises to teach women living near Lake Victoria how to use an app called AquaRech to connect with vetted fish farmers, cutting out fish suppliers entirely.