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The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) has disclosed that an estimated amount of US$2.5million is needed to fully tackle and bring an end to the menace of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) in the country’s waters. Fisheries Minister Mavis Hawa Koomson was speaking during a plenary session at the 2023 Ocean Conference in Panama, and said: “MoFAD is committed to ensuring that 100 percent of industrial vessels licenced to fish in Ghana’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) deploys electronic monitoring systems, including the use of cameras to monitor and document activities taking place on vessels. “We estimate an…