Akyeampong, Emmanuel and Kusimi, John M. and Paarlberg, Robert (2025) Fishers on the Gulf of Guinea: Climate, and the income diversification imperative. p. 20.
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Coastal fishing communities in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea are under economic stress due to significant declines in their principal catch of small pelagic fish – fish that live in the open water. The total catch of small, sardine-like pelagic fish declined by 59 percent in Ghana between 1993 and 2019, and in Cote d Ivoire by nearly 40 percent between 2003 and 2020. These declines, which have been underway since the 1990s, are in part a result of ocean warming, driven by climate change. Roughly 90 percent of added heat in the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean, and ocean warming has triggered fish migrations away from the Gulf of Guinea. This problem is made worse due to illegal fishing by Chinese industrial trawlers and over-fishing from traditional local canoes. Surveys by Harvard researchers working with local partner universities reveal that 90% of local fishing community members in Ghana, 85% in Cote d Ivoire, and 66% in Nigeria believe their children will not be able to rely on fishing in the future, or on the processing and marketing of fish.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Gulf of Guinea, Coastal Fisheries, Fishing Communities, Climate Change, Small Pelagic, Fish Migration, Illegal Fisheries, Overfishing, Trawlers, Diversification |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2025 07:01 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2025 07:01 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/22025 |
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