Introducing NORGHATI Norway-Ghana Tilapia Initiative Dr Kofitsyo S. Cudjoe

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GHANA IN AFRICA Akosombo Dam

The Seed: Simmah Ltd: The Ghanaian Client MoreFish: Norwegian supplier of aquaculture technology. NORGHATI - A Private Sector Initiative

Participating Norwegian Organizations

Participating Ghanaian Organizations Simma Ltd Prime Shores Ltd Ghana Irrigation Development Authority Ghana Environmental Protection Agency Aquaculture Research and Development Centre

 Education & training  Hatchery and breeding  Feed and feeding  Fish health management  Regulatory framework, licencing and law enforcement  Harvesting systems and operational equipment  Dissemination NORGHATI Project Highlights

Achieving Food Security  To achieve food security calls for a paradigm shift from Competition to Cooperation in National Priorities.  To ensure food security people must have access to an affordable, nutritionally adequate diet.  Sustainable agricultural development must look at alternative innovation systems, how such systems can benefit mankind, and what changes are needed to realise it.

GHANA’S PRIORITY POLICY GOALS ●Knowledge base for professional aquaculture practice and industry. ●Strengthen Monitoring, Control and Surveillance to ensure compliance with existing regulations. ●Tackle the issue of poor governance.  Aquaculture to meet huge domestic demand and bridge a national shortfall of over tonnes.  Aquaculture sector increased from 7154 metric tonnes in 2009 to metric tonnes in 2014  Impossible to meet the national target of metric tonnes by 2016

RATIONALE - PRIORITY POLICY GOALS ●High nutritional and economic dependency on fish ●Annual yield pegged at metric tonnes ●84 % from small-scale sector  Contributes 4.5 % of GDP  Directly employs of which are women  Indirectly supports livelihoods of 2.2 million people  For the above reasons, measures must be put in place to safeguard the industry 

Management options to save small pelagic fishery ●Ending open access ●Closed seasons ●Closed fishing areas ●Additional weekly fishing holidays ●Increased net mesh size ●Cap and reduction of number of canoes ●Daily landing quota ●Removal of fuel subsidies* ●Territorial use rights  Above measures will rebuild the marine fisheries stocks and catches * Might be inimical to poor fisher folk!

Reasons for declining landings of pelagic fishes ●Weak governance ●Over-capacity and open access fishery  Allow overfishing from increasing number of boats and fishers.

The key to success isn’t in all the things we do but in the handful of the things we do well! THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION!