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A project aimed at strengthening accountability in the country's political system was yesterday launched in Accra. The $6.4 million project,...

Fisheries and aquaculture are a source of health, wealth, nutritional security and jobs for African countries, and Ghana is no exception.

Mass COVID-19 Vaccination For Fishers At Tema Harbour

Some players in the fishing industry have called on the government to consider buying vessels to replace the over 14,000 canoes currently fishing in Ghana’s sea as a managing tool for the country’s dwindling fish stock. The stakeholders made the call at the Ghana News Agency monthly stakeholder engagement aimed…

It is compulsory for employers with 15 or more employees to insure their liability under the Insurance Act, 2021 (Act 1061). They can also insure under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1987 which indemnifies an employer against legal liability for injuries to employees resulting from accidents occurring in the course of…

Graphic Online BY: Zadok Kwame Gyesi 705 Ghana currently does not have any locally trained captains or engineers to operate industrial fishing vessels. This has led to the country engaging expatriates, such as Japanese, Chinese and Koreans, to man industrial fishing vessels in its waters. Speaking with the Daily Graphic in Accra last Thursday, the Office Manager of the Ghana Industrial Trawlers Association (GITA), Mr Gilbert Sam, said since Ghana did not have any locally trained captains and o...

  Research in the country’s marine resources claims that nine out of every 10 fishing trawlers operating in the country are beneficially owned by Chinese corporations. This is in spite of a prohibition against foreign ownership or control of trawlers flying the country’s flags. According to findings of the study, the foreign owners usually operated through local front companies using opaque corporate structures to import their vessels, which they registered and with which they obtained lic...