General News of Sunday, 2 February 2020Source: ghananewsagency.orgFisheries sector not attractive to youth - StudyFile photoThe fisheries sector is said to be losing its youthful workforce as most young people continue to shun fishing for other more lucrative ventures, a situation that put the future of the sector in jeopardy. It was undertaken as part of a five-year USAID/UCC Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Support Project that spanned 2014 to 2019. A lead Consultant of the Study, Professor Francis Nunoo of the Department of Marine and Fisheries Sciences, University of Ghana, said the youth abandoning the sector was giving way to losing the skills and experience needed to be passed on from the older generation to the younger ones. “The implication is that there is not much future for the fisheries, given that quite a number of young people do not want to go into the fisheries sector,” he said. The study recommended co-management as the way to go in ensuring proper management of the fishing sector, while the traditional authorities and chiefs need to be empowered to play active roles in its management.

Source: GhanaWeb February 02, 2020 02:15 UTC