06
Oct
About 14 fishing vessels have departed Ghana’s territorial waters for failing to comply with the country’s fishing regulations, Mr Moses Anim, Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, has revealed. He said, over the past few years, the Ministry had tightened regulations by strictly enforcing the Fisheries Acts (particularly Act 625) and increased surveillance on the country’s waters. As a result, he said, some 14 fishing trawlers which could not adhere to the regulations had been forced to exit the country’s waters. Mr Anim disclosed this in an interview with the media on the sidelines of a Sustainable Fisheries Management…