{"id":232561,"date":"2026-05-07T04:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-net-loss-the-hidden-cost-of-protecting-ghanas-oceans\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:19:53","slug":"ghana-net-loss-the-hidden-cost-of-protecting-ghanas-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-net-loss-the-hidden-cost-of-protecting-ghanas-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Net Loss &#8211; the Hidden Cost of Protecting Ghana&#8217;s Oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Maame Ayorkor has sold fish from the same weathered wooden table near Jamestown harbour for 22 years. Each morning, she rises before dawn, waits for the canoes to return, and sorts through whatever the sea has given. Lately, the sea has been giving less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;The fish are not here like before,&#8221; she says, gesturing toward the Atlantic. &#8220;And now they say we cannot go out certain weeks. But the big ships &#8212; those ones out there &#8212; they never stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Maame Ayorkor&#8217;s complaint captures a tension at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605060324.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maame Ayorkor has sold fish from the same weathered wooden table near Jamestown harbour for 22 years. Each morning, she rises before dawn, waits for the canoes to return, and sorts through whatever the sea has given. Lately, the sea has been giving less. &#8220;The fish are not here like before,&#8221; she says, gesturing toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6629,4508,4509,8226,9101,9183,20460,257,9895,8518,254],"class_list":["post-232561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cost","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-hidden","tag-loss","tag-net","tag-news","tag-oceans","tag-protecting","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}