72 vessels, 17,336 fishing hours: The monitoring gap at Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area

Five months after Ghana declared its first protected ocean zone, there are no marked boundaries, operational patrols or government funding – and fishermen say they do not know where the protected area begins or ends. Ghana’s first marine protected area is missing from one of the world’s leading open-access systems for monitoring fishing activity at sea. The 703.86 sq km…

By er3lkSeptember 18, 20261 min read32 views