{"id":22230,"date":"2014-06-03T12:15:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=22230"},"modified":"2014-06-03T13:27:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T13:27:38","slug":"ghana-fish-is-very-wholesome-aquinas-quansah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=22230","title":{"rendered":"Ghana fish is very wholesome &#8211; Aquinas Quansah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Deputy Fisheries Minister, Aquinas Quansah has denied reports that Ghanaians are at risk of diseases due to the\u00a0illegal methods\u00a0fishermen use in fishing.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Graphic Newspaper in a publication on Monday warned Ghanaians to be weary of the fishes they consume because fishermen in Lower Axim in the Western Region have been using chemicals such as DDT to increase their catch.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper also quoted the chief fisherman in the area as confirming the practice.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Quansah has described the newspaper reports as conjecture because \u201cwe called the chief fisherman [Lower Axim] and he said nobody even interviewed him so he didn\u2019t give that information to anybody so seriously, I don\u2019t know where that story is coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Deputy Minister expressed grave concern about the report because according to him, such reports paint an unfavourable picture about Ghana\u2019s fisheries industry to the international market.<\/p>\n<p>He said the European Union (EU) is not purchasing any fish from Ghana \u201cbecause of these things and we had a problem with the FAO [Food and Agricultural Organization] on the same issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These two bodies upon further checks into the matter cleared Ghana of any malpractices in its fishing industry on Friday, 30th May, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wake up on Monday and this story is in the newspapers\u2026and trust me, either Times [Ghanaian Times] or the Daily Graphic didn\u2019t do any checks from the Ministry on whether we have received any such information on that or not. They just went ahead and published.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such reportage Mr. Quansah is convinced will kill the fishing industry \u201cbut I can tell you for sure that in Ghana, now our fish is very, very wholesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that the Ministry, a Fisheries Enforcement Unit was inaugurated to patrol the landing beaches to \u201crandomly test the fishes for any chemical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Police are also patrolling the seas to prevent the fishermen from engaging in such illegal fishing methods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Deputy Fisheries Minister, Aquinas Quansah has denied reports that Ghanaians are at risk of diseases due to the\u00a0illegal methods\u00a0fishermen use in fishing. The Daily Graphic Newspaper in a publication on Monday warned Ghanaians to be weary of the fishes they consume because fishermen in Lower Axim in the Western Region have been using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":22232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,17],"class_list":["post-22230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}