The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) has procured some 6,000 assorted fishing nets valued at about GH₵6million for distribution at a subsidised cost to artisanal fishermen across the various fishing communities in the country. The fishing nets, which are expected to be distributed soon, with the opening of...
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...
The Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD), Mavis Hawa Koomson, is getting tough with trawlers operating in Ghanaian waters, denying license renewal to about 77 percent of the total 76 trawlers that fish in our territorial waters. It is recalled that in July last year, the ministry issued a...
Ghana’s sardinella fishery provides food and livelihoods for coastal communities and is more important than ever as coronavirus spreads. It is under severe threat from illegal targeting by industrial trawlers in a trade known as ‘saiko’. Now a report from the Environmental Justice Foundation has revealed that the samples...
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...
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...
Fisherfolks who disregard directives and still go fishing during the closed season will be dealt with by the law, Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hawa Koomson, has cautioned. According to the minister, despite all the efforts and measures made to rescue the country’s depleting fisheries sector - key among them...
- Liberia’s Fisheries DG; as Liberia and Ghana Sign MoU The Government of Liberia, through the National Fisheries & Aquaculture Authority in collaboration with the Liberia Maritime Authority, and the Government of Ghana, through its Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, on Monday, November 7, 2022 signed a Memorandum of...
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...
The global spread of COVID-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in Africa are fuelling anxiety about negative economic growth, failing healthcare and collapsing food systems We are facing great uncertainty on the African continent. The global spread of COVID-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in Africa...