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EU Ambassador to Ghana hands over a community centre to the clam fishers and processors of Ada
The EU Ambassador to Ghana, Diana Acconcia, was the guest of honour at a durbar organized by the EU-funded Far Dwuma Nkodo project during her visit to the Ada Traditional Area.
Her visit coincided with the handing over of a newly constructed community centre for clam fishers and processors in the area.
She also used the opportunity to inaugurate the newly formed co-management committee for the sustainable management of the clam fishery of the Volta estuary under the project. During this one-day visit, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call on the Ada Traditional Council and spent time with fishers and processors to discuss the future of clam fishery.
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A non-governmental organisation (NGO) with focus on fisheries resources, environmental and coastal management, Hen Mpoano, has called on the government to urgently pay more attention to the survival of clam fisheries in the country.
Clam are a kind of shellfish which can be eaten. An example is oysters.
The Director of the NGO, Mr Kofi Agbogah, who made the call, said clam fisheries alone raked in about $4 million a year, and that the sector employed more than 2,000 people in the country.
He expressed the worry that in spite of the critical contribution of clam fisheries to the country’s food security and economy in general, the government, over the years, had not paid any attention to the sector.
EU promotes clam production in Ghana
The production of clam in Ghana, locally known as “adode,” yielding an annual income of four million dollars for the harvesters and processors, has been given a boost through a project for community empowerment and sustainable practices, sponsored by the European Union (EU). The “Far Dwuma Nkodo” project, implemented by Hen Mpoano, a not-for-profit organisation, and the UK-based Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), another not-for-profit organisation, has sensitised clam harvesting communities in the Greater Accra and Volta regions on best co-management practices. They have also been trained on how to document the traditional management arrangement that regulates the activity and ensure these rights are secured in the context of increasing competition from other users of the estuary.