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Aug 18-21: Conference on Fisheries and Coastal Environment in Accra, Ghana ...read more1 November 2018
Nov 8: CRC to host RIMTA’s Annual MeetingCRC will be hosting the RI Marine Trades Association’s annual ...read more25 October 2018
Nov 8 and Nov 9: Game of FloodsCRC is teaming up with Providence, RI Emergency Management Agency – ...read moreThe Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) and its implementing Agency, the Fisheries Commission (FC) on November 2 – 4, 2015 engaged fisheries stakeholders at Cape Coast to discuss the content of the newly gazetted National Marine Fisheries Management Plan (NMFMP) and how it could be effectively implemented to rebuild Ghana’s dwindling marine fisheries.
read moreThe purpose of the training is to enhance skills and knowledge of the Fisheries Commission, FSSD in biological sampling and data management. The trainees had the opportunity to go through a series of lectures on biological techniques supported by hands on exercises. The training provided an overview of sampling techniques, measuring lengths, weights and collecting age and growth information. This was followed with a training in database systems and database development using MS Access.
read moreStrategic partnerships with the private sector have the potential to play a critical role in helping Ghana SFMP meet its goals. In May-July 2015, SSG Advisors conducted a Rapid Partnership Appraisal (RPA) in the Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions of Ghana in order to identify high-value public-private partnership opportunities for Ghana SFMP. Through the RPA, SSG aimed to identify partnership opportunities with companies and other key stakeholders in Ghana, to leverage additional resources for the sustainable development of the country’s fisheries sector. As part of the RPA, SSG conducted over 70 interviews with multinational and Ghanaian companies, business associations, development projects, Non-Governmental Agencies (NGOs) and government institutions to better understand the interests and challenges of potential partners vis-à-vis SFMP objectives, and to begin to formulate possible partnership opportunities. SSG also interviewed each of the SFMP implementing partner organizations, to better understand project goals, vision, and priorities.
read moreReport on women's roles in the fishery sector, a study tour in The Gambia.
read moreTraining materials for small business management.
read moreThis facilitators' guide to behavior change communications in PHE projects emerged from a BALANCED Project workshop.
read moreCoastal ecosystems are under pressure from population growth, habitat change, thermal stress, sea level rise, acidification, resource over-exploitation and degradation, pollution, and altered freshwater flows. Pressure on the coast is likely to increase with continuing climate change, population growth, urbanization trends, and the fact that most of the world’s largest cities are located in the coastal zone. It is, therefore, critically important that everything possible be done to avoid and reduce the impacts of human activities on invaluable coastal ecosystems and to find alternatives to “business as usual.”
read moreThis brief examines the imperative of integrating voluntary compliance with effective enforcement of fishery regulations to rebuild Ghana ' s severely over exploited fisheries. Around the world, experience has shown that coercive enforcement alone will not produce the effective implementation of fisheries regulations. The enabling conditions necessary for the implementation of fishery reforms must first be created and they are not yet present in Ghana.
read moreA workshop on Fisheries Law and Regulations in Ghana was held on 17 – 18 December, 2012, at the Volta River Authority (VRA) Conference Hall, Shama. The workshop aimed to raise awareness and deepen participants’ understanding of the Fisheries Law and Regulations and their ecological justifications. Ghana’s national fisheries statistics shows that marine fish production has generally been on the decline for the past two decades. The case is not different from what the fishers themselves said during recent surveys conducted in coastal fishing communities in the Western Region of Ghana. Ghana Statistical Service, in January 2013, reiterated that the contribution of fisheries to Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has declined and the fisheries sub-sector was one of the worst performers in the year 2012 as far as the economy of the country was concerned. Signs are clear and more people in Ghana are beginning to appreciate that fisheries in Ghana are heading towards a crisis. It is apparent that without reforms in fisheries management in Ghana, the future of the goods and services provided by fisheries in Ghana are by no means assured.
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