Closed marine season will bring us a maximum of benefits – The return of fishermen | General news

Fishermen at Prampram Landing Beach in the traditional Dangbe area of ​​the Greater Accra region supported the government's policy for the closure of the 2018 season scheduled from August 7 to September 4, 2018 to save the day. total collapse industry. At a press conference, fishermen, canoe owners, fishmongers, bademblers and members of the Unity Committee urged the government to urgently enforce laws and regulations. regulations on unreported and unregulated practices before, during and after closure. Solomon Djangmah, an Assembly member for the Lower West Prampram, said that despite declining fish landings, the number of canoes and boats fishing at Prampram alone is a bit out of date. 60 canoes in the year 2000 to more than 300 canoes nowadays.
He added that the figure shows an increase of canoes during the period The fishing effort is very high, the catches per unit of effort are extremely low because of the large number of people who have made the crisis of overfishing of all stocks.

The situation, according to Solomon Djangmah, is alarmed by illegal fishing practices such as light fishing, blasting / dynamite fishing, use of harmful chemicals for fishing, use of small gillnets, trawlers fishing in the shoreline reserved for artisbad fishing and widespread use of monofilament nets in marine areas.

they said did local and artisbad fisheries that mainly target the small pelagic fishery, namely; the sardinella locally known as "kanklaman, antebo", the locally-known "samman" salmon and the anchovies locally called "Amoni" or more commonly known as the fish of the people constitute more than 80% of the landing of the marine canoe fishermen.
argue that these groups of fish are not in abundance for catching in the waters at present and fears are that the fishermen would be out of work if the measures are not taken.

He said, "This is a crisis and it threatens our livelihood and employment as fishermen here in Prampram, which threatens the very existence of our community, the national security, the food security and halieutic, our national economy and the protein needs of present and future generations. "
Again, they were of the opinion that the sector provides direct and indirect jobs for more than 2.5 million of Ghanaians at the national level, especially the coastal fishermen who are fishermen and processors of fish and their dependents and who, as fishermen, fish a lot in August, but in recent years, a drastic decline in their catches and the fear that they will be unemployed if steps are not taken.

"This is what we do to take care of our families and educate our children," said the fishermen. supported that a while will come if the steps are not taken, the fishing communities will be completely unable to maintain their livelihoods because there would be no fish to catch.
Fishermen have professed that they would take the b This measure is one of the steps taken to replenish fish stocks in order to improve their livelihoods and those of their communities.
The fishermen of Prampram Landing Beach have stated that it is in this context that the fishermen are convinced and have cast their They expressed their support by bringing a sustainable solution to the depletion of the fish stock in waters and reducing the difficulties that fishermen face.

They expressed their joy with the badurance that during the festival "Homowo" they would be allowed to fish. just for the occasion and then watch the closed season.