This year’s fishing closed season for all artisanal fishers and industrial fleets in Ghana’s marine ocean will be enforced from tomorrow.
The measures, a fisheries resource management strategy, are to reduce fishing pressure on marine habitats and replenish the dwindling fish stock levels in the country’s maritime space.
A one-month closure will be enforced for canoe and inshore fishers between July 1 and July 31, 2021, while industrial trawlers will also take a two-month break from fishing activities from July 1 to August 31.
To officially close the sea, the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mrs. Hawa Koomson, will join stakeholders in the fisheries sector in a ceremony at Keta in the Volta Region today.
Executive Director of the Fisheries Commission, Nana Arthur-Dadzie, has appealed to fishers to comply with the fishing regulation, stressing that offenders would be prosecuted.
