The country’s Fisheries Management Plan, which is currently under review, states that the marine fisheries can sustain 48 trawlers. Yet 76 trawlers were licensed as at the end of 2019.
Ghana’s fish population is already in dire straits and the arrival into Ghanaian waters of three new trawlers from China...
Senegal has rejected licensing requests for 52 new industrial fishing vessels, after Senegalese small-scale fishers and industrial shipowners raised the alarm. On World Ocean’s Day, June 8, the Minister of Fisheries rejected the requests, in a victory for sustainable fisheries. Attention is now on a similar case in Ghana,...
The Ministry for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development has distributed 300 outboard motors to fishermen in the Western Region.
With these subsidized outboard motors, the government and fishermen share the cost equally and it is to support the livelihood of the fishers and the fishing communities
Mrs. Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, Minister for...
The Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC) has laid an embargo on new entrance of canoes from various landing beaches across the country's coast, effective January 2023.
Members have established a three-year moratorium - a measure to limit the number of canoes fishing along the country's coast to make the...
By Wisdom JONNY-NUEKPE
A Norwegian fishing research vessel, R/V Fridtjof Nansen, is currently undertaking a fisheries resource survey in Ghana’s territorial waters in support of implementing an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management.
The survey by R/V Fridtjof Nansen, which started on May 9 in Cote d’Ivoire, arrived in Ghana’s waters on...
This year’s National Farmers’ Day is being observed today owing to the fact that Ghana goes to the polls on December 7 to elect both the President and parliamentarians, though December 4 will still be observed as a public holiday.
The B&FT uses this auspicious occasion to congratulate the country’s...
Stakeholders in the aquaculture subsector have called on the Fisheries Commission (FC) and the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to develop a Residue Monitoring Plan as part of measures to guarantee safe and high quality fish for consumers in line with international standards and export requirements.
This call was contained in...
As part of its comprehensive coastal sanitation program, Ecozoil Ghana has successfully conducted a thorough cleanup of the Cape Coast Castle beach, also known as Abrofo Mpoano.
This initiative, which came off Friday, September 6, 2024, along the beaches of Cape Coast, not only aimed to maintain a clean beach...
The total value of seafood and fish products imported into Ghana amounted to US$290million last year, a marginal increase of less than 1 percent over the preceding year’s value, latest report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has indicated.
The report, dated March 22, 2022, said the amount...
The Chief Executive Officer of Crystal Lake Fish Limited located at Dodi Asantekrom near Akosombo, Ms Patricia Safo has been presented with the Life Time Aquaculture Achiever Award 2023.
The Aquaculture Life Time Achiever Award was presented to her at Dinner and Awards Night organised by the Chamber of Aquaculture...