Seasonal Variations in Temperature and Salinity in the Gulf of Guinea

Dovlo, Emmanuel K

doi:10.15406/jamb.2016.04.00074

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“…Irrespective of the supply source, small-and large-scale traders transport locally processed fish to coastal and inland marketplaces where it is sold either retail to consumers or wholesale to traders who then take the fish to more remote markets. The result is that 95% of small pelagic fish landings are for human consumption (Nunoo et al 2015) and 75% of Ghana's total fish production is consumed domestically (Dovlo et al 2016). Fish trade not only contributes directly to FSN by facilitating fish access to consumers, but also contributes indirectly when the incomes generated by fish traders are used to improve the FSN of their households (Kawarazuka and Béné 2010).…”

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Market women’s skills, constraints, and agency in supplying affordable, safe, and high-quality fish in Ghana

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In Ghana, the role of female informal traders (“market women”) in making low-cost smoked and dried fish available in urban and rural marketplaces is the key to explaining the high consumption of fish in the country. However, market women’s contribution to food security and nutrition (FSN), as well as to fish quality and safety is underrated and poorly understood. Fish marketing requires proficient distribution and preservation skills, economic and sociocultural competence, and a high degree of mobility. Fish traders face numerous constraints related to fish supplies, credit access, hygiene, storage facilities, transport, and market governance, all of which affect their incomes and may affect the quality and safety of fish. The article, which is based on semi-structured interviews with fish traders and fish consumers in coastal and inland markets in Ghana, documents how traders operate and exhibit agency to deal with constraints by activating a range of skills in their profit-making and their fish quality and safety enhancement strategies. The authors argue that policies grounded in knowledge about fish traders’ activities, skills, and working conditions, with budgets that prioritize investment in public infrastructure that caters for market women’s professional and personal needs, can further enhance their ability to supply affordable, safe, and high-quality fish to Ghana’s population.

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“…This finding again is supported by the KII where the respondents admitted that the studied communities go fishing all year round. This practice could be so because it was found elsewhere that most fishermen along the coast of Ghana have no alternative source of livelihood and thus may be forced to fish all year round Dovlo et al (2016). Most of the communities (67%) have no local mechanism for periodic closures to help conserve marine resources.…”

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“…The first stage is to identify fishermen and the second stage is to randomly interview them to get the required sample in each region/community. Overall, the sample of 400 respondents was carved out of a total of 107,518 fishermen who operate along the coast of Ghana (Dovlo et al, 2016). Following Yamane (1967), the sample is determined as follows;…”

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Marine biodiversity conservation: The cultural aspect of marine protected areas in Ghana

Karakara,

Peprah,

Dasmani

2024

Aquatic Conservation

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Studying fishers and fishing communities' social‐cultural structures is vital in policy‐making concerning local marine ecosystem sustainability. Previous studies on marine communities seldom neglected the role of culture in marine biodiversity conservation, especially a marine protected area (MPA) establishment. This study first explores the cultural practices in coastal communities in Ghana that have the potential for the conservation of the marine ecosystem (MPA); second, it examines the willingness of coastal communities to welcome an MPA establishment. Primary data were collected using focus group discussions with 9 fishermen, key informant interviews with 20 chief fishermen, and self‐administered questionnaires to 491 fishermen across 9 semi‐urban, 2 urban, and 16 villages along the coast of Ghana. Adopting the convergent parallel mixed‐methods research design (quantitative method includes descriptive analysis using tables, charts, diagrams, and χ2 bivariate analysis; and qualitative method involves a narrative format), the study underscored that the socioeconomic characteristics of fishermen are diverse and mixed. Most of the fishermen do not know what an MPA is but are willing to accept an MPA initiative. Certain cultural practices such as the prohibition of gathering certain species, traditional close season, and fishing holidays are found to be conducive to an MPA initiative. These cultural practices should be integrated into an MPA policy. Fisheries practitioners should consider an ecosystem‐based approach (including cultural values) to fisheries management and fishermen should endeavour to learn new skills outside the industry.

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“…Ghana's industrial vessel fleets are classified into three categories: the semiindustrial sector, the industrial sector (mostly comprised of trawlers), and industrial foreign tuna vessels. Together, these two regions have 15 of Ghana's 26 coastal administrative districts, with the total smallscale fisher population estimated at about 26,000 in the Greater Accra Region and 34,000 in the Western Region (Dovlo et al 2016).…”

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“…Table 1 shows the number of small-scale fishing fleets and people who engage in fishing in the various localities, as well as the average catch quantities, underscoring the importance of small-scale fishing to the local economies. These communities were drawn from seven of the coastal administrative districts where small-scale fishing constitutes a significant economic activity, and they were purposively selected (Marshall and Rossman 2014) for one or all of the following reasons: (1) their proximity to the commercial fishing port where the industrial fishing vessels land and begin their fishing; (2) their contribution to smallscale fisheries catch; and (3) their listing as a community in Ghana's Fisheries Scientific Division's Marine Canoe Survey Framework of the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (Dovlo et al 2016). Ghana's Fisheries Scientific Division's Marine Canoe Survey indicate that the catch quantities in the communities vary based on a number of reasons, including the number of fishers, the variation in fishing capability in terms of fishing gears, and the seasonal fluctuations in the fishery across the coastal villages.…”

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Blue economy: industrialisation and coastal fishing livelihoods in Ghana

Ayilu

Fabinyi

Barclay

et al. 2023

Rev Fish Biol Fisheries

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The growing focus on the blue economy is accelerating industrial fishing in many parts of the world. This intensification is affecting the livelihoods of small-scale fishers, processors, and traders by depleting local fishery resources, damaging fishing gears, putting fishers' lives at risk, and compromising market systems and value chain positions. In this article, we outline the experiences, perspectives, and narratives of the small-scale fishing actors in Ghana. Drawing on qualitative interview data, we examine the relationship between small-scale and industrial fisheries in Ghana using political ecology and sustainable livelihood approaches. We demonstrate how industrialised, capital-intensive fishing has disrupted the economic and social organisation of local fishing communities, affecting incomes, causing conflicts, social exclusion and disconnection, and compromising the social identity of women. These cumulative impacts and disruptions in Ghana's coastal communities have threatened the viability of small-scale fisheries, yet coastal fishing actors have few capabilities to adapt. We conclude by supporting recommendations to reduce the number and capacity of industrial vessels, strictly enforce spatial regulations, and ensure "blue justice" against marginalisation.

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Seasonal Variations in Temperature and Salinity in the Gulf of Guinea

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Market women’s skills, constraints, and agency in supplying affordable, safe, and high-quality fish in Ghana

Market women’s skills, constraints, and agency in supplying affordable, safe, and high-quality fish in Ghana

Marine biodiversity conservation: The cultural aspect of marine protected areas in Ghana

Blue economy: industrialisation and coastal fishing livelihoods in Ghana

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