We, the undersigned common society associations, associations, and affiliations attempting to get protected, supportable, and fair fisheries in Ghana are composing this letter to look for explanation on the expected authorisation of two modern fishing vessels in Ghanaian waters. This worry has emerged following the course of a letter purportedly enumerating a solicitation by DUMA FARMS AND FISHERIES LTD. that the vessels SHUN FENG 906 and SHUN FENG 907 are conceded licenses forthcoming endorsement by the Fisheries Minister and the Ghana Maritime Authority.
All in all, we are seriously worried at the possibility of extra limit being added to the fish area, considering that populaces of a few essential animal groups in Ghana's waters are as of now near the very edge of breakdown. These incorporate little pelagics, for example, sardinella and chub mackerel, which are the soul of beach front networks the nation over - giving indispensable food and work security to millions across the country. The demolishing environmental and philanthropic emergencies across Ghana's shoreline are inseparably connected to the presence of ineffectively controlled unfamiliar modern fishing vessels, who have every now and again been recorded catching non-target species, making attacks into fishing zones saved for kayaks and utilizing unlawful cog wheels to decrease the selectivity of catch.
To concede two extra licenses would be in direct inconsistency to the supported draft of the Marine Fisheries Management Plan 2022-2026 (MFMP), in which a three-year ban on new-contestants to the fish area has been proposed in acknowledgment of the overfishing emergency that as of now describes the fishery. Collectively of partners, a significant number of whom have partaken resolutely during the time spent drafting this arrangement, we wish to clarify that a break of the proposed ban would strike an extensive disaster for the trust that is so crucial in the plan and execution of viable fisheries administration.
Besides, it is our comprehension that because of issues with documentation, the two vessels have been briefly denied admittance to the port of Tema. We ask the Minister, on the off chance that she has not done so as of now, to embrace a careful reasonable level of effort process - remembering for issues of proprietorship, hailing ways of behaving and past permit acquisitions. It is our conviction that the identity of the gainful proprietors might fall beyond Ghana, which would comprise a break of Section 47(1) of the Ghanaian Fisheries Act, 2002. For the evasion of uncertainty, Section 47(1) specifies that: "a nearby modern or semi-modern fishing vessel is a fishing vessel
(a) Owned or constrained by a resident, the Government, or claimed or constrained by an organization or organization enlisted by regulation in the Republic which has its chief business environment in the Republic and the portion of which is gainfully possessed entirely by the Government, a resident, a public partnership laid out by regulation in the Republic or a blend of any of them".
Taking into account the abovementioned, we are consciously mentioning explanation with respect to the planned permitting of these two vessels. Moreover, we beg the Honorable Minister and her partners to keep promises made in the MFMP to forestall the proceeded with abuse of Ghana's valuable regular assets, subsequently showing their assurance in the battle to safeguard marine environments and the waterfront networks who depend so vigorously on them.
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