If properly enforced, Ghana’s new 2019 Companies Act will make it much more difficult for Chinese fishing corporations to illegally use Ghanaian ‘front’ companies to obtain local licences, a legal analysis has confirmed.
Designed to improve transparency in company ownership and reveal any vested interests, the Act requires clear identification...
Government is putting a stop to entries of new artisanal canoes in the marine sector for three years, Mavis Hawa Koomson, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, has announced.
This move is part of measures to manage the growing number of canoes and control fishing in a way that helps...
Egbert Faibille, Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum Commission (PC) has praised fishermen for their cooperation in minimising incursions into safety zones.
“A safety zone is an area extending 500 metres from any part of offshore oil and gas installations; our fishermen have done well in minimising risks to fishing and...
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...
With the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries’ voting in favour of a new European Union (EU) law to prohibit the import of fisheries products linked with forced labour, the country risks being punished for such violations.
The new law, which was passed July 19, 2023, is meant to effectively address...
For the first time in three years, the countries fishing sector has shown signs of a promising future as figures from the Ghana Statistical Service indicate it has finally recorded growth after a period of contraction.
The fishing sector has been in abysmal form since 2017, when growth contracted to...
Ghana’s fisheries sector is a major contributor to the country’s economy, providing jobs and nutrition to millions, but for a long time now the sector has come under severe pressure from illegal fishing activities. Activities of illegal foreign fishing trawlers are not only depleting fish stocks and affecting the...
By Latif MUSAH
Despite regulations set forth by the Fisheries Regulation 2010 (LI 1968), illegal fishing practices persist along Ghana's coastline, threatening marine resources and livelihoods. Techniques such as light fishing, carbide usage, dynamite explosions, and chemical pollutants like DDT continue unabated, leading to a decline in fish stocks and...
Climate change is intensifying food insecurity across sub-Saharan Africa, where Russia’s war in Ukraine and the pandemic are also adding to food shortages and high prices.
Climate events - which destroy crops and disrupt food transport - are disproportionately common in the region. One-third of the world’s droughts occur in sub-Saharan...
There is a high risk that seafood caught by vessels fishing illegally in Ghana is entering the EU market, a new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation has concluded
Industrial trawlers authorised for export to the EU have been linked to illegal foreign ownership and implicated in the use of...