The Department of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences organized a three-day retreat (from 23rd – 25th October, 2015) at Axim to deliberate on second year workplan activities of the USAID/UCC Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Support Project which commenced in October, 2014.
The Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) under the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences of the University of Cape Coast has launched an online database project called Fisheries and Coastal Management Database of Ghana (FishCoM Ghana(link is external)) in Accra.
The primary goal of FishCoM Ghana(link is external), which is Supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is to offer an efficient and easy access to data (both published and unpublished) to aid the management of Ghana's fisheries and coastal resources.
In support of the Government of Ghana’s (GoG) initiatives on food security, the United States Government (USG) through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is supporting a five-year capacity building program for fisheries and coastal management in Ghana. The project contributes to GoG’s overall grand fisheries and coastal development objectives and USAID’s Feed the Future (FtF) Initiative, the USG led global hunger and food security project designed to enhance economic growth in beneficiary countries.
A three-day work planning workshop was held by the USAID/UCC Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Support Project last week, from 25 to 27 July 2017, to set project activities for the fourth year of its implementation as well as map out strategies for their execution.
CCM together with the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences on 24 th June, 2017 joined the Hen-Mpoano, an implementing partner on the Wetlands Ecological Health Monitoring Project activity on a field trip to Azulewanu and Ampain near Essiama in the Western Region.