AllAfrica News: Oceans and Rivers

[Ghanaian Times] Maame Ayorkor has sold fish from the same weathered wooden table near Jamestown harbour for 22 years. Each morning, she rises before dawn, waits for the canoes to return, and sorts through whatever the sea has given. Lately, the sea has been giving less.

[Namibian] The entry scale of salmon farming is substantially ground-breaking and transformative, while capture fisheries have been the primary commercial fisheries in Namibia since as early as the 1940s.

[Namibian] Wet-landed horse mackerel sector companies are under pressure to outline how they will sustain operations after a temporary policy shift opened about 700 jobs in the sector.

[Nile Post] Fishing communities in Kasese District are raising alarm over a new government directive limiting the number of boats at each landing site to just 33, warning that the move could severely disrupt livelihoods and heighten insecurity in the area.

[Ghanaian Times] The Minister of Works, Housing and Water Resources, Mr Kenneth Gilbert Adjei, has warned that the government will be ruthless in dealing with persons who encroach on wetlands and other waterways.