According to a contempo report, the subsidy programme has amount government about GHC1.4 billion from 2014 to 2022, with an anniversary boilerplate amount of GHC163 million
Projections announce a added billow to GHC1.074 billion by 2026. Despite this cogent expenditure, the programme has bootless to advance the abundance of fishing communities, with letters of abbreviating catches, income, and chancy alive conditions
Furthermore, the programme has been bedeviled by aberration of premix ammunition into added markets, overpricing, and hoarding, benefiting cartels and political assembly at the amount of the country
An industry aloof recommends auctioning the premix ammunition subsidy and instituting an achievement subsidy regime, which would advance adeptness and abundance amid fishermen
''The output-based subsidy helps government to abutment artisanal fishermen who accomplish well. Because fishermen apperceive that they will alone get acclaim accessories based on their adeptness to bolt added fish, they will advance their achievement in communicable added fish. This reduces angle acceptation acutely and promotes abundance of fishermen,'' according to Executive Director at Centre for Environmental Management and Sustainable Energy (CEMSE), Benjamin Nsiah
Additionally, Benjamin Nsiah calls for accuracy and artifice measures to be implemented to stop corruption and accommodate admission to data
''Lack of accuracy makes it difficult for us to actuate the accurate amount of ammunition subsidy in Ghana, accordingly automatic accessories that admeasurement articles beatific to landing beaches should be installed,'' he said
The National Security should investigate and apprehend those affairs premix ammunition aloft subsidised prices, black corruption of poor fishermen
As government's adeptness to armamentarium the subsidy hangs in the balance, it charcoal to be apparent whether reforms will be implemented to abode these acute issues
By Eben Agyekum-Boateng, 3Business