The seas and fresh water serves as natural dwelling place for a variety of species which humans are directly and indirectly dependent on for their existence. Any attempt to disrupt this ecosystem would mean that those whose bread and butter depends on the sea are going to be adversely affected.
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In Ghana, the sea/freshwater serves as an employment to many folks who lives around the banks as well as the huge value chain of employment it creates.In deed life below water contribute to poverty reduction in Ghana. However, little has been done to prevent illicit fishing in Ghanaian waters due to the influx of Chinese vessels and pair-trawlers that uses light and chemical to fish.
International standard of fishing are usually disregarded by the Chinese. Fingerlings are harvested thus, depleting the countries fishing stock.Dumping of plastic waste, untreated solid and liquid waste is common scene with Ghana’s sea.
Ghana has make little progress on this looking at how we could have done if we were really committed to achieving this goal.Even though the ministry of fisheries have a policy of closing fishing in the seas to allow for spawning, this is largely enforce on Ghanaian peasant fisher folks while the foreign nationals are allowed to deplete the little we have.
