Environmental Justice Foundation Stolen At Sea How Illegal Saiko

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635603824115742930-SAILING-71109142.JPG?width=3200&height=1808&fit=crop ... Saiko is illegal, attracting a fine of between us$100,000 and us$2 million. the minimum fine increases to us$1 million where catches involve juvenile fish or the use of prohibited fishing gear. although saiko activities are widespread, there is a very low risk of arrest and sanction. Saiko is the local name for illegal fish transshipments in ghana, where industrial trawlers transfer frozen fish to specially adapted canoes out at sea. this briefing provides an overview of the current scale and impact of saiko, based on extensive quantitative and qualitative fieldwork in country.

Environmental Justice Foundation | Stolen At Sea: How Illegal ‘saiko’…

Environmental Justice Foundation | Stolen At Sea: How Illegal ‘saiko’… Saiko is the local name for illegal fish trans shipments in ghana, where industrial trawlers transfer frozen fish to specially adapted canoes out at sea. it used to be a practice whereby canoes would buy the unwanted by catch of industrial vessels. Environmental justice foundation. this video covers ‘saiko’, a severely destructive form of illegal fishing. foreign trawlers target the staple catch of ghanaian canoe fishers and sell this stolen fish back to local communities. Illegal 'saiko' fishing costs ghana tens of millions of dollars in revenue and threatens food security and coastal livelihoods. By allowing saiko to continue, it becomes ever more challenging to secure the buy in of artisanal fishers to address their own destructive fishing practices and issues of over capacity in the canoe sector. and yet, these actions are also critical to saving ghana’s fisheries from collapse.

Environmental Justice Foundation | Illegal Saiko Fishing Continues…

Environmental Justice Foundation | Illegal Saiko Fishing Continues… Illegal 'saiko' fishing costs ghana tens of millions of dollars in revenue and threatens food security and coastal livelihoods. By allowing saiko to continue, it becomes ever more challenging to secure the buy in of artisanal fishers to address their own destructive fishing practices and issues of over capacity in the canoe sector. and yet, these actions are also critical to saving ghana’s fisheries from collapse. Saiko is a form of illegal fishing where foreign trawlers target the staple catch of ghanaian canoe fishers and sell this stolen fish back to local communities at a profit, and for the first. Saiko is the local name for illegal fish trans shipments in ghana, where industrial trawlers transfer frozen fish to specially adapted canoes out at sea. it used to be a practice whereby canoes would buy the unwanted by catch of industrial vessels. ‘saiko’ is a form of illegal fishing, where foreign trawlers target the staple catch of ghanaian canoe fishers and sell this stolen fish back to local communities at a profit. for the first time, a new report has released an estimation of the true cost of saiko. According to a study conducted by the environmental justice foundation (ejf) and hen mpoano in 2019, (stolen at sea. how illegal 'saiko' fishing is fuelling the collapse of ghana's fisheries), a single saiko canoe transshipment trip could land the equivalent of fish caught by 450 fishing canoes! it was estimated by the study that annual saiko.

Shining a Light: EJF's Investigation into the Devastating Impacts of Illegal Saiko Fishing in Ghana