Cook Islands Creates Huge Pacific Ocean Marine Reserve
The Cook Islands has created one of the world's largest marine sanctuaries, protecting a vast swathe of the Pacific Ocean ...
Tag: Fisheries
Thai Seafood Giant Commits To Major Fishing Reforms
Thai Union, one of the world's largest seafood conglomerates, said Tuesday it will overhaul its fishing practices to protect against ...
Fishing Slows Down At Shama As Illegal Mining On Pra Pollutes Sea
Illegal mining (galamsey) activities in the Pra River have affected fishing activities at Shama, a coastal town in the Western ...
Local Firm Takes Over Elmina Fish Processing Plant
The Elmina Fish Processing Plant has been officially handed over to a Ghanaian management firm, Raphael Spectrum Company Ltd. The ...
Fishmongers Asked To Adopt Hygienic Fish Smoking Methods
Fish processors and traders in the Western Region, have been called upon to adopt hygienic smoking and processing methods, so ...
Irate Fishermen Disrupt Meeting On Illegal Fishing In Accra
Some irate fishermen in the Greater Accra Region last Saturday besieged the Civil Service Training Centre at Cantonments in Accra ...
EU Injects Over EUR2m Into Sustainable Fisheries Development
The European Union (EU) has committed more than two million Euros to the implementation of a four-year sustainable Fisheries Resources ...
Marine ‘galamseyers’ On Rampage; Disrupt Inauguration of Volunteer Group In Ada
A group of fishermen numbering about 200 on Friday interrupted a programme organised by the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture ...
US Scientists Track Fish Migration Using DNA In Water Samples
A simple analysis of fish DNA in water drawn from two New York rivers successfully tracked the presence or absence ...
Sacrificing Fishes For Oil; A ‘galamsey’ Threat Offshore
In Ghana, virtually every part is opened for mining. As a result, 8 out of the 10 regions are currently ...
Fish Farming In Danger
Research scientists at the Water Research Institute (WRI), one of the institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ...
Fish Farming In Danger
Research scientists at the Water Research Institute (WRI), one of the institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ...
‘Underwater Wasteland’ Worries After Cyclone Hits Barrier Reef
A powerful cyclone that smashed into northeastern Australia could have caused further damage to the under-pressure Great Barrier Reef, turning ...
Government Moves To Address Challenges In Fishing Industry
The government is in the process of rewriting the Fisheries Act, 2002 to address key challenges in the country’s fishing ...
Coral Reefs In Hot Water
A spike in water temperature lasting only days bleached all the coral in a South China Sea atoll, and killed ...
‘Dead Zones’ A Threat To Coral Reefs
Low-oxygen areas of the ocean known as dead zones threaten hundreds of coral reefs worldwide, fragile ecosystems already struggling because ...
Great Barrier Reef May Never Recover From Bleaching
Australia's Great Barrier Reef may never recover from last year's warming-driven coral bleaching, said a study Wednesday that called for ...
Plan To Save Great Barrier Reef Set Back Decades
Australia's plan to rescue the beleaguered Great Barrier Reef has been set back at least two decades after the fragile ...
Stop Politicising Fisheries Challenges – Fisherfolk To Government
Fishermen and fishing groups across the country have unanimously agreed to resist any move by government to politicize solutions to ...
Stop Politicising Fisheries Challenges
Fishermen and fishing groups across the country have unanimously agreed to resist any move by government to politicize solutions to ...