The Fisheries Commission’s preliminary investigations into the dead fish washed ashore on parts of Ghana’s coast indicate that stress factors caused the deaths.
Speaking to Citi News, the Head of Fish Health Unit at the Fisheries Commission, Dr. Peter Zedah said further tests are being conducted for further clarity.
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“Whether they were poisonous or not, we cannot tell because the other people are doing some pesticide testing.”
Mr. Zedah added that his outfit was sending the gills and the kidneys of the dead fish for histopathological analysis.
“When that one [the histopathological analysis] comes, we can say it is confirmatory but for now, the fishes were stressed, and they came [out].”
The assessment showed that the fishes washed ashore “looked good, so it gives you the impression that maybe some environmental factors may have caused their death.”
The fish were found along the shores of the Osu Castle beach in Accra and ashore at the Axim-Bewire beach in the Nzema East Municipality on Sunday.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development is coordinating an inter-agency investigation into the reported incidents.
The agencies probing the incident comprise the Fisheries Commission, the Food and Drugs Authority, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Ghana Maritime Authority, the Ghana Navy, the Marine Police and the respective Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the affected areas.
Though the state has tried to discourage the sale and consumption of the dead fish and started the monitoring of markets, some fishmongers have been seen processing the fish in Axim. Though police have been alerted to arrest any persons found distributing the dead fish from these incidents into the Ghanaian food chain, no arrests have been reported.
This is a useless piece of preliminary report.
Even the uneducated know for fishes to have travelled such nortical miles in such a short distance, death was inevitable.
How else will they survive minus the habitat.
This country pay useless people with huge titles yet we are abject poverty.
Very poor living standard, no toilets , high market prices, lack of medicare, u make it.
Unemployment is at its craziest point and the youth have resorted to anything to live.
Are we surprised to see teen agers killing their fellows for ritual cash?
We import everything plus tooth pick, useless leaders will kill us all.