{"id":986697,"date":"2022-02-11T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/11\/mmdas-must-establish-sub-committee-on-fishing\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:26:10","slug":"mmdas-must-establish-sub-committee-on-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/11\/mmdas-must-establish-sub-committee-on-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"MMDAs must establish sub-committee on fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Tema, Feb. 9, GNA &#8211; The Ghana Tuna Association (GTA) has called on the various Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies that have fishing as one of the major activities in their communities to establish a Sub-Committee on fishing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Doing that, it said, was important to help to effectively address issues in the fishing sector.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Richster Nii Amarh Amarfio, Secretary of the GTA, also highlighted the need for the assemblies to regularly engage with the fisher folks to get to know and to have a better understanding of everything happening in the sector.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He criticized the present arrangement where the assemblies\u2019 sub-committee on agriculture exercised oversight responsibility for fishing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\u201cAgriculture and fishing are two different things, agriculture is when you deliberately cultivate your crop, but fishing is hunting. If it is fish farming being considered under agriculture, it is not a problem but if it is fishing in the wild, the process is different.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He made the call at a forum organized by Ghana News Agency\u2019s Tema Regional Office.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He said the fishing industry had a bigger potential and urged regular stakeholder engagement to ensure that the right things were done.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Amarfio noted that Ghana had enough tuna to feed the country, the European Union (EU) market remained the only hope for the survival of the industry.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He suggested that deliberate efforts should be made towards \u201ccreating an internal market in the form of developing dishes that would make use of tuna\u201d.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\u201cI have not seen hotels in Ghana using tuna in their dishes apart from the canned ones they use for salads.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tema, Feb. 9, GNA &#8211; The Ghana Tuna Association (GTA) has called on the various Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies that have fishing as one of the major activities in their communities to establish a Sub-Committee on fishing. Doing that, it said, was important to help to effectively address issues in the fishing sector. Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2962,3873,4836,4837],"class_list":["post-986697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-establish","tag-fishing","tag-mmdas","tag-subcommittee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}