Many trawling vessels in Tema, Ghana, are reportedly enjoying a bumper harvest of fish, two weeks after the opening of this year’s fish closed season.
The catches are mostly made up of red fish, cassava fish, octopus, herrings, mackerel and salmon.
Normally, it would take a trawler on a fishing expedition between four weeks to six weeks to return with enough catch, but the situation has greatly improved post this closed season(August to September), as many of the vessels returned in a record time of two weeks with their storage filled to capacity.
This came to light Thursday when the Executive Director of Fisheries Commission, Michael Attah Dadzie, paid a working visit to the Tema Fishing Harbour to ascertain the impact of the closed season.
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