The Ghana Aquaculture Association is urging public calm after it emerged that at least 18,000 tonnes tilapia died en masse at a fish farm and had to be destroyed.
President of the Association, Jennifer Sodji, has said part of the fish farm, Fujian Farm -- a Chinese owned company -- at Asutsuare in the Greater Accra Region, has since been shut down pending further investigations.
“We realised that the fishes were dying and then we alerted the Fisheries Commission. EPA [the Environmental Protection Agency] also moved in there to investigate the fish at the farm. The general public is not supposed to be worried about it,” she told Accra-based Citi FM.
The cause of tilapia mortality is not yet known. But some reports indicate that the tilapia died because they may be a strain of a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) that could not survive conditions in the fish ponds in Accra.
Persons with insights into fish farming also say they suspect that there was a toxic residue in the pond due to “massive organic loading”.
This “organic loading”, according to experts, can be caused by excessive feed input per unit volume of water, poor water exchange per the expanse of installed cages and the cool surface temperature due to extended cloud cover caused by persistent rainfall.
Tilapia is a popular Ghanaian delicacy. Banku and tilapia is a common dish on the long list of cherished Ghanaian cuisines.
But Some residents of the area, who got information about the unwholesome fish being buried, rushed to the scene Friday morning and managed to smuggle out some of the strain of dead tilapia suspected to be genetically modified.
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Source: The Statesman
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This GMO ***barred word*** ,if you tell people in high places it is bad they don't understand.If anything should happen in the future I will support the death penalty been used.***barred word*** t.They go and collect small money a sacrifice a whole nation.Have they sat and thought about the economic implications.Once the local pure natural tilapia is gone you will depend on providers of gmo fish ,crop ,etc for the rest of your life.National security sit up.
The story is written as if "genetically modified" is a bad thing! The bad is that the fish died of unknown causes and our greedy selves are selling them for cash.
NADMO,spare the country this rubbish,follow the CHINESS,and refuse to do the right thing.Allow those ***barred word*** chiness to kill Ghanaians.Instead of doing the right thing by making sure those fishes were buried,making sure the chines STOP the so-called fish farm.BUT BECAUSE OF BRIBERY,LAZINESS..... Stories will be told very soon.
these short short guys the least said about them the better
Poisonous Tilapia Buried - NADMO ?????? so the women were washing the fish before burial ????? smh. am told this started as early as first week in October.
what in this video shows the tilapia being buried? can you please spare us this rubbish