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...
Fisheries Advisor for the Sustainable Fisheries Management Project (SFMP), Kofi Agbogah, has called for the Fisheries Act to be amended to help support the Co-management Policy that has been identified globally as an international best practice in fisheries management.
“Fisheries Co-management is a strategy for managing Common Pool Resources, whereby...
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...
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...
Fish found in water-bodies surrounding the Tarkwa and Damang mines are healthy, according to Gold Fields Ghana which operates both gold mines located in the Western Region.
Results of analyses conducted last year by the Environmental Monitoring Laboratory of the University of Mines and Technology, (UMaT) show that the fish...
The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) has disclosed that an estimated amount of US$2.5million is needed to fully tackle and bring an end to the menace of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) in the country’s waters.
Fisheries Minister Mavis Hawa Koomson was speaking during a plenary session...
By Wisdom JONNY-NUEKPE
Ghana has announced its commitment to join the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), a global body that focuses on public access to information for thematic areas of marine capture fisheries.
Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson, presented an official commitment letter to the FiTI International Board Chair,...
A US$10million National Aquaculture Centre and Commercial Farms facility has been inaugurated to augment domestic production and reduce fish imports.
The Centre is expected to provide training and start-up support to 300 aquaculture entrepreneurs, as well as produce 50,000 metric tonnes of fish within five years.
The farmwhich operates under the...
By Wisdom JONNY-NUEKPE
The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development has reported low compliance with the three-year moratorium intended to deter new canoe entries into the sea due to over-congestion of the marine space.
Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Minister, Madam Mavis Hawa Koomson, was addressing canoe fishermen in Accra as part...
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...