![]() However, in cases of prolonged and continued non-compliance, countries can ultimately face a procedure of identification (a so-called red card), which entails sanctions such as the prohibition to export their fishery products to the EU market. At this stage, the decision does not entail any measures affecting trade. The Yellow Card is a warning and offers Ghana the opportunity to react and take measures to rectify the situation within a reasonable time. The Yellow Card is an official warning issued by the EU to trading partners falling short of tackling IUU fishing. However, the issues raised by the EU for the second Yellow Card included inadequacies in the area of legal framework to fight IUU illegal trans-shipment at sea of large quantities of undersized juvenile pelagic species between industrial trawl vessels and canoes on Ghanaian waters expired Marine Fisheries Management Plan (2015-2019) expired National Plan of Action to prevent, deter and eliminate IUU (NPOA-IUU)-2014-2018 deficiencies in the monitoring, control and surveillance of the fleet as well as lack of deterrent sanctions imposed on vessels engaging in or supporting IUU fishing activities on Ghanaian waters. Ghana first received a Yellow Card in 2013 and was lifted in 2015 when the country introduced some reforms in the fisheries sector to tackle the menace. This is because Ghana was identified by the EU as a non-cooperating third party state in fighting Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing (IUU). ![]() Ghana was on Jissued with a Yellow Card by the European Union (EU). Also, speaking at the just ended 14th session of the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) in Accra on Friday, January 13, 2023, the Fisheries Minister pledged the commitment of Ghana to work with other coastal countries in the ECOWAS region to fight IUU. ![]()
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