The Ghana National Canoe Fishers Council (GNCFC) has urged stakeholders in Fisheries to play their respective roles diligently to curtail Illegal Unreported Unregulated (IUU) fishing. It said the Fisheries Commission, Marine Police, fishers, and all other entities must work with a common goal of ensuring that the distasteful illegalities collapsing artisanal fishery was flushed out. …

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The Centre for International Maritime Affairs, Ghana (CIMAG), is calling for the establishment of an integrated ocean governance policy in order to provide a legal and political framework that protect our oceans for a sustainable marine future. Speaking to Eye on Port, the Director of CIMAG, Albert Derrick Fiatui, said such a policy will provide …

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Ghana and Denmark have signed a renewed agreement designed to deploy modern technology on the Volta Lake to determine safe navigational channels to reduce accidents and their attendant deaths. This marks the third phase of the Ghana-Denmark Strategic Sector Cooperation project which has existed for 6 years. The document, signed by the representatives of the …

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A Chinese fishing vessel, MV Comforter 2 has sunk in the wee hours of last Friday, May 6, 2022, along the Elmina – Takoradi marine waters. Its last known position was said to be 46 nautical miles South of Saltpond. Information gathered indicates that 25 crew members were on board including 19 Ghanaians and six …

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Ghana and other developing countries must petition the World Trade Organization (WTO) to push developed countries to withdraw subsidies on foreign industrial fishing vessels to stop them from overexploiting the fish resources of developing countries, Director of Environment and Natural Resource Research Initiative (ENRRI EfD Ghana), Professor Wisdom Akpalu has entreated. ENRRI–EfD, also called on …

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