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Apr
The Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has announced the 2023 fishing closed season will start on July 1, 2023. According to her, canoe and inshore fishermen are to observe the closed season for a month, from July 1, 2023, to July 31, 2023. Industrial trawlers are, however, expected to observe the closed season for two months, from July 1, 2023, to August 31, 2023. Hawa Koomson, who made these remarks at a stakeholder engagement to access the 2022 fishing closed season, in Accra, on Friday, April 13, 2023, said that the government is putting measures in place…