{"id":3462,"date":"2019-06-28T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","slug":"rampant-illegal-activities-threaten-ghanas-fishing-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/28\/rampant-illegal-activities-threaten-ghanas-fishing-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Rampant Illegal Activities Threaten Ghana&#8217;s Fishing Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Stacey Knott <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Ghana, about\n2 million people rely on these fish for their food and income.&nbsp; But\ntrawlers, run almost exclusively by Chinese operators using Ghanaian front\ncompanies, are illegally targeting this staple catch and selling it back to\nlocal communities at a profit in a practice called saiko, according to a report\nfrom local NGO Hen Mpoano and the Environmental Justice Foundation\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/economy-business\/rampant-illegal-activities-threaten-ghanas-fishing-sector\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stacey Knott In Ghana, about 2 million people rely on these fish for their food and income.&nbsp; But trawlers, run almost exclusively by Chinese operators using Ghanaian front companies,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}