12 May 2025 · 1 min read
GIMPA professor Wisdom Akpalu chairs new Fisheries Commission Board
The Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Emelia Arthur, inaugurated a ten-member governing board of Ghana’s Fisheries Commission chaired by Prof. Wisdom Akpalu of GIMPA, an environment and natural resource economist. The board has a four-year mandate to oversee the strategic direction and governance of the sector; the Minister called for a sustainable, well-governed and resilient fisheries sector.
Prof. Wisdom Akpalu of GIMPA, an environment and natural resource economist, chairs the governing board of Ghana’s Fisheries Commission. The Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Emelia Arthur, inaugurated the ten-member board, which has a four-year mandate to oversee the strategic direction and governance of the sector.
At the inauguration the Minister called for a sustainable, well-governed and resilient fisheries sector.
In April 2026 a 12-member Board of the Fisheries Commission was sworn in under the new Fisheries Act, Act 1146, again chaired by Prof. Akpalu.