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More Than 200 Ghanaian Fishers Scale Back Guitarfish Catches as Snail Farming and Soap-Making Replace Fin Income

Ocean Life

🇬🇭 Ghana

In five fishing towns of Ghana's Ahanta West district, fishers once paid by the fin are now trained to release critically endangered guitarfish, and some earn more from snail farms and soap than from the sea.

83peopleFishers and boat captains trained in safe release of guitarfish
200fishers (more than)Fishers who have scaled back their guitarfish harvest
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