Residents of the Bono East Region hold cultural beliefs that prevent them from consuming fish from certain rivers.
Maa Tiwaa, a native of Tanoso, in a recent interview with a blogger, Fanta Blaq, indicated that the fish in the Tano River are considered sacred and are likened to human beings.
This belief, she said, is rooted in the notion that the river god, Kwadwo Tano, regards the fish as children, making it a taboo to eat them. "All the fish in the river are regarded as human beings, so we don't eat fish from the Tano River.
We bathe in the river.