Saiko Fishing Continues Despite Gov't Assurance To End It

The illegal trade of Saiko continues unabated specifically at Elmina, with an average of eleven boat landings a week, the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has observed. This, it said was despite efforts by the government and the Ghana Industrial Trawlers Association (GITA) in November last year to crack down on the menace. Saiko is a severely destructive form of illegal fishing where industrial trawlers target the sta ...