According to her, there is a current ban on tilapia importation hence anybody found to have imported such product into Ghana breaches the law.

[contextly_sidebar id=”7ZC6k4o5vhl2slSBVYJyJKrgfAyswh8D”]The Ghana Police Service is currently on a manhunt for two Chinese nationals who are said to have imported unwholesome tilapia into the country.

According to the Police, they have a bench warrant to arrest Zhang Ming alias Gary and Chu Yong Shuai whose 1,310 cartons of tilapia according to the Foods and Drugs Authority were unwholesome.

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Thursday, Afoley Quaye said “the law enforcement agencies have every right to look for such people and prosecute them because it is against our law.”

Ghana imports 60% of fish consumed

The Minister also said Ghana imports over 60% of its 950,000 metric tons of fish it consumes annually.

Afoley Quaye, who blamed the imports on the steady depletion of Ghana’s fish stock, said her outfit has put in place measures to arrest the situation.

“We have a deficit of over 60% of production of fish in Ghana. So we import over 600,000 metric tonnes of fish and we produce less than 400,000. At the moment we have our stocks depleting steadily, and we really have to do something quickly about it else we lose our stocks entirely,” she said.

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According to the Police, they have a bench warrant to arrest the two; Zhang Ming alias Gary and Chu Yong Shuai “for the offence of importation of Tilapia Fish in commercial quantity into the Republic of Ghana without permit contrary to section 130 (1) and (3) of Fisheries Act 2002 (Act 625) respectively.”

[contextly_sidebar id=”7ZwOvcupHUnexGVib8w7k3TtCwW3rh2g”]Zhang Ming, a businessman and his accomplice Shuai, imported 1,310 cartons of tilapia into a cold store in Tema on January 29, 2017, the police said in a public notice signed by Olivia Turkson, Public Relations Officer of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

“The Food and Drugs Authority were invited by the Police to inspect the alleged imported tilapia to ascertain whether the fish were wholesome for human consumption. Results by the FDA revealed that the tilapia were unwholesome for human consumption.”

The suspects have since bolted, and according to the police, all efforts made to trace them have proved futile “hence the call for public support to get the suspects arrested and brought to book.”

‘Fish shortage to hit Ghana if Chinese fishermen are banned’

The development comes after calls by some Ghanaian fishermen for government to stop Chinese fishermen from operating in Ghanaian waters.

But the Managing Director of the semi-industrial fishing company, Onyame Fisheries, Joe Onyame, insisted that there will be a severe shortage of fish in Ghana if Chinese fishermen are banned.

According to him, the locals do not have the requisite capital and skill to buy and operate vessels used by the Chinese to harvest fish from the sea for consumption.

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