Beyond the Catch: Women bear cost of fisheries crisis

While conversations around fisheries decline often focus on fishermen, illegal fishing and declining fish stocks, thousands of women who keep the post-harvest sector running are quietly carrying the burden.

A fishing closure that changed women’s lives Ghana’s annual closed fishing season has become one of the country’s major interventions aimed at rebuilding depleted fish stocks.

A fish processor from Elmina, Maame Araba Nyaniba, said declining stocks affected not only their businesses but also social conditions within fishing communities.