Year: 2022

A general view of the Makola market, one of the country's largest trading centres in Accra, Ghana March 26, 2022. REUTERS/Francis KokorokoRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comACCRA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Ghana's economy expanded 4.8% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2022, driven by growth in the fishing, manufacturing and education services sectors,…

A woman, aged 41, has drowned with three children in a pit dug in the Keta Lagoon at Laklevikope, near Aflao, in the Ketu South Municipality. The incident happened on Saturday when Madam Yawa Apenu was allegedly fishing with Bridget Amewu, 14, and Daddy Amewu, 10 – her children- and a third child, Sitsofe Ahiawor, 8,…

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The World Bank Coastal Fisheries Initiative Challenge Fund (CFI-CF) has announced the winners of its competition to find a solution to the global overfishing problem. The event sought collaborative ways in which the various stakeholders could work together to combat overfishing. The competition sought applicants from Cabo Verde, Ecuador, Indonesia and Peru and received over…

One Senator has said practices such as catfishing need to be a criminal offence, if social media companies want to keep their users. Fianna Fáil's Lisa Chambers was speaking after having her image used on a dating site in the UK. She told The Pat Kenny Show the recourse for people is too limited. "It…

The USA Women’s Spearfishing Team have begun a crowdfunding campaign to compete in the 2023 CMAS World Spearfishing Championships. The championship will take place September 7-10, 2023 in Laredo, Spain. In the inaugural Women’s World Spearfishing Championships held in Portugal in 2018, the USA Women’s Team were Champions. At the second event held in Italy…

China Coast Guard members help strengthening mooring cables of fishing ships at a coastal harbor in Zhejiang Province.   BEIJING, Sept. 14 -- China has upgraded the typhoon alert to orange, the second-highest level, as Muifa, the 12th typhoon in this year, is expected to make landfall in the coastal areas between Wenling city and Zhoushan…

A popular tourist resort in Tofino, B.C., co-owned by former NHL player Willie Mitchell, says it is operating under an interim manager after "highly inappropriate behaviour" came to light during its annual fishing tournament. The details of the alleged behaviour are still unclear, but the Tofino Resort and Marina says it has cancelled the remainder…

ByJoão RodriguesPublished September 12, 2022• 10 min readOnce upon a time, on the outskirts of Lisbon, villagers threw their doors open to the street whenever they heard the clopping of donkeys laden with baskets of sardines. Every household claimed its share of Portugal’s ocean bounty. But one day in early 1773, the Marquis of Pombal,…

More than three-quarters of the giant plastic mass found between Hawaii and California comes from the fishing industry, say researchers The Ocean Cleanup says it aims to clean up 90 per cent of floating ocean plastic by 2040, an operation that would cost around €1 billion Published: 4:00pm, 12 Sep, 2022 Updated: 4:42pm, 12 Sep,…