Business News of Tuesday, 9 March 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comGet rid of 4000 canoes from our seas to safeguard future of our fish - Prof. Akpaluplay videoCanoes at Labadi (File Photo)The Director of the Environment and Natural Resource Research Initiative (ENRRI – EfD Ghana), Prof. Wisdom Akpalu, has said that to be able to ensure that the country’s fishing areas continue to be productive enough to give us fish, then least 4000 canoes currently operating on the seas should be gotten rid of. He explained that with so many canoes out on the seas catching fish, it does not allow the fishermen to derive the best benefits in their catch from the fish, as well as safeguarding the future of fishing. This, he said, endangers the future of the fishing sector and the best way to protect this future is to ensure that the 70% dominated artisanal (small) fishing sector, must be control or reduced. So which means technically, 4000 plus canoes are not supposed to be there at all," he explained.

Source: GhanaWeb March 09, 2021 17:37 UTC