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The National Fisheries Association of Ghana (NAFAG) has called on the government to fix the challenge with the menace of illegal mining locally known as ‘galamsey’ to help save the fishing industry.

The Vice Chairman of NAFAG, Richster Nii Amarh Amarfio told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview that galamsey and other environmental issues have serious effects on the fisheries sector and must therefore be dealt with.

Mr. Amarfio said “There is something fundamentally wrong with our fisheries sector, which cannot be attributed entirely to Illegal, unreported, and unregulated IUU fishing. Fix the challenge with galamsey and its effect on the fisheries sector, as there is a relationship between the inland water bodies and the ocean.”

He added that it was important for the regulatory bodies to look at those environmental factors, such as galamsey contributing to the fish stock depletion, stressing that when a country loses its essential habitat, they would lose their fisheries.

“In the first place, the inland water bodies themselves are habitats for fish; they contribute to our fisheries demand, so when we destroy our inland water bodies, it puts unnecessary pressure on marine fisheries,” the NAFAG Vice Chairman stated.

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