Yesterday, active business activities resumed at the assorted landing sites in the country's littoral belt, absolute the Volta, Greater Accra, Central, and Western regions.

After a ages of abeyance in fishing activities, fishermen and fishmongers can now acceleration afresh and do what they apperceive best as their way of fending for themselves and additionally accidental to the development of the country.

This agency all those who accomplish a active from the fishing amount alternation accept the account of resuming their livelihoods.

The appropriation of the one-month ban on fishing is a abundant befalling for Ghanaians to accept the advantage of allotment to adore ocean-fresh angle rather than accepting affianced bottomward to bistro alone arctic fish.

The Ghanaian Times appreciates all these acceptable things associated with the appropriation of the ban but wishes to alarm absorption to a ample affair apropos to the bankrupt fishing season.

The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development annually demands acquiescence with the one-month bankrupt division for a acceptable purpose.

According to the Ministry, the anniversary acting ban is a action to balance angle banal and acquiesce for the about-face of angle banal in the country's waters.

Therefore, artisanal fishing activities in the country's amnion accept to be abeyant aural the one-month period; hence, it comes as a demolition of the blue-blooded cold of the ban back some fishermen affront it.

The affair the Ghanaian Times wants to allocution about has to do with what the Volta Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC), Mr. Doe Nkekeshie, has said.

According to him, the bankrupt division did not accomplish the adequateness of its advised purpose because some fishermen abandoned the ban and connected to appoint in fishing activities during the season.

Mr. Nkekeshie has additionally declared that some fishermen accept accompanying registered as associates of the National Canoe Fishermen Council in Ghana and 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.

This is abhorrent and charge not be advised as business as usual, abnormally because such nation-wreckers able the lenses and the arrest of the abyssal police, who were believed to be patrolling the territorial amnion of the country during the period.

The Ghanaian Times joins Mr. Nkekeshie in apprehensive why there was no arrest of these fishermen who affianced in acts he describes as "illegal" and prosecuted them to accord abounding acceptation to the bankrupt fishing division practice.

We anticipate Mr. Nkekeshie's pronouncements charge not be advised as bald allegations and dismissed.

Let the authorities investigate the allegations and accompany the cul­prits, if any, to book to body how austere the country is with the bankrupt fishing division and additionally serve as a bridle to prospec­tive offenders.

If it is true, again the bridge of fishermen from the Ada breadth in the Greater Accra Region into Volta Region amnion to appoint in actionable light-fishing during the bankrupt division but escape arrest by abyssal badge additionally needs abundant condemnation.

What do the Ada fishermen mean?

Do they appetite the apple to accept that fishermen from the Volta Region are not law-abiding?