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October 16, 2025
WA Shellfish Hub and Hen Mpoano Train Volta Clam Harvesters and Processors on New Depuration System
The WA Shellfish Hub has conducted a hands-on training session for clam harvesters and processors at Big Ada
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October 16, 2025
New Clam Depuration System by WA Shellfish Hub to Improve Seafood Safety
The WA Shellfish Hub has successfully designed, constructed and installed a clam depuration system at Big Ada, to aid rapid purging of silt from clams and improve health and safety of clam consumption in Ghana.
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October 16, 2025
2025 Bonthe Oyster Festival in Sierra Leone Inspires Sustainable Mangrove and Shellfish Management
The 2025 Bonthe Oyster Festival displayed such a vibrant scene of women shellfishers keen to take charge of the management of wild-caught oysters. This is an annual festival promoting oyster consumption to stimulate an industry.
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May 21, 2025
Grooming Tomorrow’s Leaders: How Precious, a Young Nigerian Woman, is Pioneering Change in West Africa’s Shellfisheries
At just 19 years old, Precious Isaiah Bassey is already charting a path toward becoming one of West Africa’s future leaders in sustainable shellfisheries management
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May 21, 2025
Mangrove Seedling Donation for Mangrove Restoration and Sustainable Shellfish Harvesting at Narkwa Lagoon
The Densu Oyster Pickers Association has donated mangrove seedlings to the Narkwa Oyster Harvesters Association to support habitat restoration and advance co-management of the Narkwa Lagoon oysters.
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November 28, 2024
West Africa Regional Peer Exchange on Shellfisheries Management Held in Ghana
Women shellifishers from different West African countries gather in Ghana to exchange knowledge on sustainable shellfish resource use and co-management.
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October 24, 2024
7th Harvest Opening Ceremony Marked for the Densu Oyster Fishery
The annual closing and opening of the Densu Oyster Fishery, marked by the collaborative efforts of the DOPA, DAA and other stakeholders is a major event on the calendars of oyster harvesters in around the Densu Estuary.
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October 24, 2024
Narkwa Oyster Harvesters Assoc. Receives Capacity-Building on Oyster Fishery Co-Management
A three-day capacity-building workshop has been successfully organised for the Narkwa Oyster Harvesters Association (NOHA) at Ekumfi Narkwa Community Centre from June 18-20, 2024.
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October 24, 2024
Indiscriminate Alluvial Gold Mining in Ghana - A Major Threat to Oyster-based Nutrition
High turbidity has a lethal impact on oysters, which are of exceptional nutritional value to several thousands of women and their household in Ghana's coast. Oysters die off when turbidity is extremely high and remains so for a long time.
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