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Ghana Navy arrests 17 fishermen for light fishing

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  • Kwame 7 years ago

    What about the chinese and korean trawlers catching all the fish in our waters.

  • DR TRUTH 7 years ago

    IN EVERY JOB THE ESSENCE IS MAXIMUM PRODUCTION. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMEONE USING FOOD BAIT TO ATTRACT IT TARGETED PREY? HUNTERS WHO EVEN CRUELLY SHOOT BIRDS ARE NOT ARRESTED. WE SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON BIG SHIPS WHO ...
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  • ........... 7 years ago

    1million dollar fine ......for light fishing....what a fuuck......hahaha......i bet those who made it so might have been heavily handicapped at the brain house.

  • ghanaman 7 years ago

    I am not condoning the practice of light fishing. What i believe is more important is for our navy to fight illegal fishing by foreign vessels in Ghana's territorial waters.

  • Nana Yaw™ 7 years ago

    When will we start operation all die be die? The ga shit eating animals need to be dealt with in an inhuman manner.

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

    YOU ARE AN ASS HOLE PISS ON AND A VULTURE WILL REJECT YOUR SHIT.
    THE FISHERMEN IN TEMA NEW TOWN ARE FANTES AND NOT GAS.
    MANY OF THEM ARE FROM MANKOADZE FISHERIES WHO WERE LAID OF MANY YEARS AGO.

  • MAN 7 years ago

    Since long time now before you made arrest????

  • IS ME 7 years ago

    KWAME, THEY ARE VERY MUCH AFRAID OF THEM

  • coooli 7 years ago

    panofi fisheries and all foreign companies and vessels even engage in bigger threats
    they even do money laundering and avoiding taxes for ship machinery.. they pick them up at abidjan where is tax free hide them and bring t ...
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  • Osono 7 years ago

    What a shame!!!!!!.Ghana arresting its citizens while foreigners doing worse go unpunished. The country wants local folks to die of hunger yet look on sheepishly for foreigners to strike fortunes with illegalities. It's a com ...
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  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    There's nothing wrong in light fishing provided it's regulated.The fishermen must form groups to convince the govt to regulate light fishing as it's done in some part of the world.I find it very stupid to stop light fishing w ...
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  • Efo 7 years ago

    It is shame, foreigners are operating in our forests reserves and destroying our rivers, and nothing is being done to them. Our own people trying to make living in the sea without any environment degradation and they are bein ...
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