Tema, Jan. 29, GNA – Mr Richster Nii Amarh Amarfio, Secretary Ghana Tuna Association has expressed concern about the indiscriminate disposal of waste in the sea and stressing the fishery industry with toxic materials.
“If people keep disposing both industrial, domestic and medical waste into the sea, we end up destroying the water body, it will reduce the quantity of fish and harm both human and marine”.
Mr Amarfio who stated at the Ghana News Agency-Tema Regional Office Industrial News Hub Boardroom dialogue focusing on dangerous activities which affect the fishing industry said the sea was there but the fishes are dying, due to disregard for the environment and unhealthy practices, “the fishes need to be treated well”.
He, therefore, urged the Tuna industry players to restore the ‘lamp of light’ by taking measures to protect the industry from collapsing. The Tuna sector has a lamp, ‘that lamp of light that regulated the industry. Our fishery industry is going down because we hardly take measures that protect the sea.
“If we keep doing the same thing, we expect to get the same result and the same results means that our sector is going down”.
Mr. Amarfio lamented that Tema Metropolitan Authority (TMA) did not have a place to process the untreated waste products, so all were channeled into the water which ends up in the sea.
“Most of the companies also channel their untreated waste into the sea, we are killing the sea with these unhealthy practices”.
Mr. Francis Ameyibor, the Ghana News Agency, Tema Regional Manager, said the agency created a progressive media caucus platform to give the opportunity to both state and non-state stakeholders to interact with journalists and address national issues.
He noted the GNA-Tema had progressed from docile journalistic practices where media practitioners depend solely on projecting agenda set by others.
“Journalists cannot claim to be agenda setters when they are only mirroring what someone wants them to project.
Mr Ameyibor noted; “We cannot deny the fact that the old analog way of news gathering has long passed; news gathering and dissemination cannot wait for two seconds, we are in the fast lane, traditional media practitioners must catch up with the fast-moving new media news train in order to remain relevant”.
GNA