Ekumfi Otuam District in the Central Region of Ghana will also benefit from fish landing site project as the Minister of Transport, Kweku Ofori Asiamah, announced the construction of an additional fishing port and landing site in the area.
Otuam is well known as the hometown of the former and...
Twenty (20) fibreglass canoes are being distributed to fishermen along the four coastal regions of Ghana to promote sustainable fishing in the country.
With the capacity to accommodate more than 15 fishermen per canoe in one fishing expedition, the fibreglass canoes were produced to reduce the dependence on Ghana’s timber...
It is no news that Ghana’s fisheries sector has been fraught with a myriad of challenges. These challenges according to experts are threatening the future of the sector.
Speaking to Eye on Port, Dr. Kamal Deen-Ali, the Team Lead at the Center for Maritime Law and Security (CEMLAWS) Africa, expressed...
About 77 percent of the total registered 76 trawlers operating in the country’s waters have been denied license renewals for failing to meet seaworthiness requirements, Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Minister (MoFAD) Mavis Hawa Koomson has revealed.
In July last year, the ministry issued a directive on specifications of gear to...
Local fishermen can expect to power their fishing boats with state-of-the-art outboard motors as the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) pre-financed the purchase of 1,300 outboard motors at a cost of GH¢19.8million for the Coastal Development Authority (CODA) and the Ministry for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development.
The 1,300 outboard motors, which...
Women in Fisheries Against Violence (WiFVEs) project has been launched at Anomabo in the Mfantseman Municipality in the Central Region to address issues of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the fishing communities.
The project, implemented by Hen Mpoano, a Coastal Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with Central and Western Fishmongers Improvement Association...
The Director of Environment for Development (EfD) Ghana is advocating removal of subsidies on premix fuel for fishing activities. According to him, instead of subsidising the fuel - which can make it easier for more people to continue fishing in the seas and ultimately deplete stock - government should channel...
Covid-19 continues to have an adverse impact on the global landscape. Assets worldwide are depreciating and bankruptcies abound; gold is a new means of storing wealth; stocks are at their lowest and almost worthless - except those of companies that provide the basics. Tullow that once was trading at...
Fisheries, which millions of Ghanaians depend on, are at risk of collapse as a result of rampant illegal fishing and overfishing by Chinese-owned industrial trawlers, and a culture of corruption has allowed these crimes to go unpunished, according to a new investigation from the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).
EJF’s investigations...
The European Union in recent years has demonstrated its interest in the way the fisheries sector is managed in Ghana and neighboring countries towards sustainability.
As such it has invested in various ways including funding for projects expected to enhance the sector such as the Programme for Improved Regional Fisheries Governance in Western...