The Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, has disclosed that her ministry is no longer giving permits and licenses to vessels to operate at the ports.
This, she said, was part of strategies being undertaken by the ministry to reduce the number of fleets at the ports, as well as to avoid excessive fishing which leads to a depletion in the stock of fish in Ghanaian waters.
“As a new government, what we intend doing is to make sure we do not repeat mistakes of the past but as agreed we would want to reduce the numbers of the fleets so we would not have over fishing on our waters,” Madam Afoley Quaye
