The Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) is holding its 14th Session of the Conference of Ministers meeting from 11 – 13 January 2023 in Accra to Advance Regional Fisheries Cooperation.
The Ministers of the six FCWC Member States including Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria,...
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...
Dumping fish in the country’s seas ranks among the highest in the Gulf of Guinea, says a report by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).
The report, titled ‘On the precipice: Crime and corruption in Ghana's Chinese-owned trawler fleet’ and published in December 2022, noted that despite the practice being explicitly...
The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) has issued a directive to industrial trawlers to make sure they use appropriate fishing nets to prevent catching disproportionate amounts of juvenile and small pelagic fish.
The small pelagic fishery is the mainstay of small-scale fishers, with around 2.7 million Ghanaians depending...
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...
Government will increase import taxes on frozen seafood by 1,573 percent from the current GH¢15 to about GH¢251 per metric tonne, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has said in its second quarter foreign agricultural service report.
The tax, the USDA said, will be paid in US dollars -...
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...
The Ghana National Canoe Fishermen’s Council and eight NGOs have called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene to end the damaging illegal fishing practice known as ‘saiko’.
This practice, according to them in an open letter sent to the president, is driving crucial fish stocks to the point of collapse...
The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) has disclosed that some twenty completed automated premix outlets will be opened by December in different locations across the country.
The move, which seeks to streamline discrepancies in the premix fuel distribution chain according to sector minister Mavis Hawa Koomson, will curb...
While two sectors, industry and services, were decimated by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as they experienced contraction of 5.7 percent and 2.6 percent respectively, agriculture rather saw a growth of 2.5 percent in the second quarter, according to data released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).
The agriculture...