Strengthening
the capacity
to
control the
depletion of
Ghana's
fisheries
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 The goal of this World Bank-funded
project was to strengthen the capacity of the
Department of Fisheries for managing the nation's
marine fisheries resources. The project included
stock assessment, the preparation and
implementation of fisheries management plans, the
registration of canoes, improvement of legal and
regulatory framework, the promotion of community-based
management and the establishment of a monitoring,
control and surveillance system.
Agrodev supplied a Monitoring Control and
Surveillance (MCS) Specialist and a Marine
Fisheries Management (MFM) Specialist to the
project.
The MCS specialist assisted the MCS unit within
the Department of Fisheries to develop the legal
and administrative basis for enforcement of
fisheries legislation; gathering of fisheries
information; and maintenance of a centralized
statistical database on the industrial and
inshore fisheries.
The MFM Specialist identified:
- the fishery resource and its
characteristics including the economic
and social value;
- assessed the present state of
exploitation of fishery resources and
potential annual yields;
- designed appropriate marine fisheries
policies;
- specified the objectives to be achieved
in the management of marine fishery
resources;
- determined to the best extent possible
the Maximum Sustainable Yields of various
fisheries;
- established Total Allowable Catches for
major commercial fisheries and
allocations to resource users;
- determined fishery resource conservation
measures;
- established simple procedures for the
variation of existing or introduction of
new management measures;
- suggested modalities to implement
management plans;
- developed proposals to consider the
economic and social implication of policy
and management changes; and
- established monitoring and reviewed
procedures that will enable the effects
of the management measures to be
evaluated.
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