NADMO: Over 100 Tonnes Of Tilapia Deaths Recorded

In the Eastern Region of Ghana, over 100 tonnes of tilapia have been lost on fish farms due to suspected complications from cross-breeding.

These losses come less than two months after similar tilapia deaths were recorded at Fujian farm, a Chinese fish farming company at Asutsuare, where over 40 tonnes of fish were destroyed in a suspected fish poisoning.

The affected farms include Amur Fisheries at Asikuma, Tropo farms located in Mpakadan, Vision 2000, West Africa Fish farms.

Officials of NADMO and EPA visited some fish farms operating behind the Akosombo Dam

Tropo farms located in Mpakadan, Vision 2000, West Africa Fish farms and several other fish farms operating behind the Akosombo Dam were the worst affected farms.

Even though the cause of deaths is not readily known, authorities from the EPA, Fisheries Commission, and NADMO are suspecting a failed cross-breeding with foreign big tilapia and multiple over caging to cash in on the festive season.

According to information, Some of the companies had already deposited the unwholesome dead tilapia into the Volta lake to cut down cost of hiring a backhoe to dig pits for burial.

However, the managers of the farm have refuted claims that the destroyed fishes were imported from China. They explained that they were bred locally.