The National Chairman of the Lake Region Fishermen Association, Mr. Castro Mediale has urged the government to make conscious effort at revamping fishing activities. He said that the government should reduce the practice of importing fish products into the country because the country has the potentials in the fishing industry.
According to the Chairman inland fishing sector has all the potentials at all the places visited, including Yeji, Ekyi-Amanfrom and Bruben, which lacks structured programmes by the government to assist fishermen as the major problem. Mediale said one main concern expressed by the fishermen was that apart from premix fuel being made available for fishermen to purchase, there was no other major support given them.
The National Chairman of the Lake Region Fishermen Association said hundreds of fishermen died and were quietly buried, without any records on such deaths, because of the fear of reporting such cases to the police, which normally involved some sort of expenses and frustrations, hence families secretly bury their dead relations without any records.
The General Secretary of All Africa Farmers Network, Mr. John Benson Akwetey said the problems identified cannot be addressed by the state alone, and thus called for collaboration between the state and the private sector to help in addressing the numerous difficulties that confront inland fishing activities in the country.
