Scorecard for the sea: Holding Ghana's marine fisheries management plan (2022–2026) to account

Scorecard for the sea: Holding Ghana's marine fisheries management plan (2022–2026) to account

At first light along Ghana’s Cape Three Points coastline in the Western Region, fishermen push wooden canoes into waters that have sustained generations of coastal families. But those waters are becoming increasingly difficult to depend on. Their survival depends, in part, on reforms promised under Ghana’s Marine Fisheries Management Plan (MFMP) 2022–2026, designed to reverse the ecological and socio-economic decline of the country’s marine fish…