The Fishing Community

Not only does an identified community as ‘ Fishing Community’’ create rooms for  Employment  and Revenue, but a Fishing Community gives that community a sense of Identity. The James Town Fishing Community  in Accra is an accepted community in relation to the fishing world. 

 Taking a walk in this community, the environment is filled  with an atmosphere of  sea breeze and mixed aroma of smoked,fried,fresh fishes. Men go A sea.. women  help their husbands  and their trading partners  by getting the fishes and sea foods from the coast and selling it finally. Some other men do the trading themselves though.  One amazing situation I sited this time  around was the fact that kids go with their fathers  to sea. Issues concerning this has been raised in the past as this act being Child Labor or  Talent Training, of which i would write about in my subsequent topics. In an interview with a fisherman..’he added that, ideally,in recent times this act is a bit unfair to the kids involved in this act,more importantly when education has remained vital and compulsory. He also said..this practice of training kids into the fishing profession     has lived with them since they were born,therefore…tradition goes on”

Tuesdays are non-fishing days for fishermen in  James Town and other  Fishing Communities in Ghana. On these days, households, apart from the the children who are to be in school, are free. Households do their laundry, cook, visits, the youthful ladies go to the market and shop, the youngmen mostly play at the coast of the beach. Some swim..some play football..some ran etc.

                    Tuesday Jamestown Beach