The closed Fishing Season announced by the Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mavis Hawa Koomson, began on 1st July 2024.
Onua TV’s reporter Akua Sarpomaa visited ‘Korleana’, a suburb of Accra, to observe how the fisher folks are coping after the closure of the sea.
Nii Lartey told Onua News that, “I am having four children and since the closure of the sea, they don’t go to school.”
“July-August is our harvest season, so I don’t know why they still close the sea in July. The relief items the sector Minister promised too, they do politics with it. So when they bring it most of us don’t get it,” he lamented.
Nii Amu Duodu also lamented that, “my family depends on me and I’m finding it difficult to cater for them. My kids won’t be going to school till they re-open the sea, because livelihood has become difficult”.
Abigail Nartey, a fish monger also stated that, “the frustration this has brought to me is not a small thing. I don’t do anything aside fish mongering which I used to take care of my five children. Because of this closure, out of my five children only two go to school and the three are in the house always. Me that I didn’t have enough money to preserve the fish till this closed season I am back to zero”.
Meanwhile some fish mongers who are selling their preserved stock are cashing out.
Source:onuaonline.com