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The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development is a ministry in the Ghanaian government that concentrates on carrying out development interventions to move the fisheries sector and the industry to contribute efficiently to the overall development of the Ghanaian economy. This forms part of the 2014-2017 Sector Medium Term Development Plan.
The Authority was established as a body corporate in 2010, pursuant to the provisions of the Sacco Societies Act with the primary purpose of streamlining the regulation of SACCOs and Co-operatives in the country under the supervision of the Commissioner of Co-operative Development, an office under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Co-operatives.
Fisheries management authorities who make real-time decisions about opening or closing restricted fishing areas are usually on land, and will communicate their decisions on paper, using websites or electronic mail, and by voice radio. Within a vessel monitoring system (VMS), the Fisheries Management Center (FMC) components are on land.
The current president of Ghana, Nana Akuffo Addo, created a ministry of fisheries and agricultural development in Ghana. On the 9th of April 2018, The current Minister of the Fishery sector in Ghana, Francis Kinsley Ato Cudjoe, announced the “One house, one tank” program which is bound to take effect from May. [12]
Fisheries law is an emerging and specialized area of law which includes the study and analysis of different fisheries management approaches, including seafood safety regulations and aquaculture regulations. Despite its importance, this area is rarely taught at law schools around the world, which leaves a vacuum of advocacy and research.
In April 2011, the Ghana Police Service set up a special Marine Police Unit (MPU). [6] The unit has amongst its duties policing operations related to the country's oil and gas industry, [3] and the handling of offenses contained in the Fisheries Act 2002 and Fisheries Regulations 2011.
Ayittey was born on 8 February 1948. [2] After graduating from Labone Secondary School in Accra as a member of the 1965–1967 year group, she attended the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, then the University of Science and Technology (UST), and earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Master of Science in industrial microbiology.
In November 2024, an arbitration tribunal in London ruled in favor of the Government of Ghana in a case involving Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet). The dispute stemmed from the government’s termination of a contract with GCNet in 2020 for managing customs systems at Ghanaian ports.