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The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development will soon establish a Monitoring Control Surveillance Centre (MCS) at Kpando Torkor to enforce compliance with fisheries regulations. Mrs Mavis Hawa Koomson, the Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, said, the Fisheries Scientific Survey Division was also leading activities for inland fisheries data…
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The Fisheries Commission says it is investigating the cause of death of fishes washed ashore the Osu Castle Beach.
A release signed by Mr Michael Arthur-Dadzie (Esq.), the Executive Director of the Fisheries Commission, and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Monday, in Accra, said the Commission received information in the evening of April 3, 2021, about fish mortalities sighted at the Osu Castle Beach.
It said a team from the Fish Health Unit and the Fisheries Scientific Survey Division of the Commission dispatched to the area noticed that there were dead small pelagic and demersal fishes at the shore.
It said the initial observation of the fishes showed no wound or lesions on their bodies.
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Agencies responsible for food safety, the environment and fisheries have confirmed that fish stock from the country’s ocean is safe for consumption.
The assurance comes after the agencies moved swiftly to prevent dead fishes found on shores in the Greater Accra and the Western regions from entering the market.
Their timely action was important to forestall any disaster on households from the consumption of any of the fishes.
The Fisheries Commission, the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Police Service and their sector ministries said they had acted in unison to bring the situation under control.