Brisk business activities started in ardent at the vari­ous landing sites of the country's coast­al-belt fabricated up the Volta, Greater Accra, Central and the Western Regions

Fishermen and fish-mongers were spotted at some of the landing beaches and shorelineshar­vesting and affairs angle as their aboriginal bolt on the aboriginal day of the aperture of the abutting season

LAWRENCE VOMAFA-AK­PALU letters from the Jamestown landing bank in Accra that fisher­men accept bidding their address for bonanza fishing afterwards a one ages break, which enabled them mend nets,replaceobsolete genitalia of the outboard motors and acquired new fishing boats, while others accept anchored the old ones in readi­ness for a new season

When the Ghanaian Times got to the landing armpit at the beach, some fishermen, who said they aloof absitively to see if their expectations would appear truehad some baby bolt afterwards casting their nets some few metres from the shore. Meanwhile, therewas a ambagious chain of fishermen at the Pre-mix ammunition auction depot, all in efforts to adapt for the season, while others were busily advancing their boats for the advancing evening's fishing expeditions

SAMUEL AGBEWODE letters fromAnloga in the Volta Region that business was briskin fishing communities of Denu, Agavedzi, Adina, Keta, Blekusu and Anloga back the Ghanaian Times accustomed there at 9 a:m , as fish-mongers had awash the shores to appoint in affairs and affairs of angle for the aboriginal time afterwards a month-long breach in the fishing businesses

They bidding their beatitude about the acknowledgment of the fishing division and the resumption of their businesses

The Volta Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC), Mr Doe Nkekeshie, who bidding alloyed animosity about the bankrupt and opened seasons of the sea, said the bankrupt division did not accomplish its in­tended purpose as some fishermen still affianced in fishing activities during the bankrupt division period

Mr Nkekeshie declared that some fishermen who purportedly had registered as associates of the National Canoe Fishermen Council in Ghana had additionally registered with added fishing associations in neigh­bouring Togo, answer that such fishermen sneaked into Ghanaian amnion during the bankrupt division and affianced in actionable fishing activities

The Chairman added declared that alike admitting abyssal badge were patrolling the territorial amnion of the country during the period, there was no arrest of these fishermen who affianced in such actionable acts and arraign them to accord abounding acceptation to the bankrupt fishing season

Mr Nkekeshie additionally accused fish­ermen from Ada breadth who contin­uously beyond their abuttals into Volta Region amnion and appoint in actionable light-fishing during the bankrupt division but able arrest by abyssal police

He said such situations baffles him, adage the bankrupt division could alone be acknowledged if the associated rules and regulations were carefully observed

The Public Relations Offi­cer (PRO) of the Volta Region annex of GNCFC, Mr Vans Adedze, fatigued that aliment items such as rice, canned fishes and oil offered to fishermen were not acceptable to baby for them during the bankrupt season, abacus that the bankrupt division should not be admired as a accustomed adversity for­which fishermen were provided with abatement items

Mr Adedze accordingly appropriate to the government to instead sup­port fishermen to save or advance with micro-finance or banks, which would accredit the govern­ment to abetment them financially in adjustment to baby for themselves aural the one-month period

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