{"id":242756,"date":"2026-08-31T20:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-misleading-liberia-does-not-import-88-percent-of-its-fish-stock\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:16:15","slug":"liberia-misleading-liberia-does-not-import-88-percent-of-its-fish-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-misleading-liberia-does-not-import-88-percent-of-its-fish-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Misleading, Liberia Does Not Import 88 Percent of Its Fish Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">On June 10, Simeon Freeman, Political Leader of the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC), <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/okaycommunication\/videos\/1546690303651063\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claimed on the OK Morning Rush<\/a> on OK FM that Liberia imports 88% of its fish stock. Mr. Freeman made the claim while discussing the economic potential of Liberia&#8217;s fisheries sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">According to him, Liberia has significant opportunities to increase domestic fish production and reduce reliance on imports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>The Claim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">An excerpt of Mr. Freeman&#8217;s statement reads: &#8220;Liberia imports 88% of her fish stock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608310065.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 10, Simeon Freeman, Political Leader of the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC), claimed on the OK Morning Rush on OK FM that Liberia imports 88% of its fish stock. Mr. Freeman made the claim while discussing the economic potential of Liberia&#8217;s fisheries sector. According to him, Liberia has significant opportunities to increase domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242757,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,8555,10453,4712,1107,32364,257,6720,254,10974],"class_list":["post-242756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fish","tag-import","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-misleading","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stock"],"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\/242756","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=242756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}