The Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Ms Hanny Shery Ayitey, has paid a two-day working visit to the Ashanti Region.
The visit formed the first leg of the Minister’s scheduled familiarization visits to all the coastal and inland fishing communities in the country this year. The tour offered the Minister the opportunity to interact with fish farmers and to have a first-hand assessment of the progress of aquaculture business in the region.
Among the farms the Minister visited are Gisgo Cottage aquaculture complex, Kuma Farms Ltd, Asoufia Fisheries and Plantation Resources Ltd, Gjan Fosu farms and the African Star Fish Farm.
The Minister also took the opportunity to visit the Fisheries Commission’s Pilot Aquaculture Centre (PAC) at Kona Odumasi. The Centre is strategically placed and offers technical and scientific extension services to fish farmers in the Ashanti and Northern parts of the country. The PAC has a hatchery and fingerling production facilities.
The Minister, who expressed deep satisfaction at the interest shown in fish farming in Ashanti Region, assured the farmers of government’s preparedness to assist them in any form to promote the new fisheries policy initiative towards developing aquaculture into a major economic industry in Ghana. She emphasized that one of the top priorities of the present government was to ensure that improved fish feed and quality fingerlings were available to farmers at affordable prices.
2015 AllAfrica