Ghana to expand artisanal fishing zone amid trawler violations

Mongabay
Jun 20, 2025, 12:52 am390 ptsTop
Ghana has announced plans to expand the area in which small-scale fishers can operate, in response to persistent violations by industrial trawlers encroaching into this zone. The country’s inshore exclusion zone, or IEZ, will now extend 12 nautical miles (22 kilometers) from shore, up from 6 nmi (11 km)…

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