Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana)

Various fresh water species are caught in the various water bodies in Ghana. Among this is the mormyrus species which is also found in the Volta Lake in Ghana.

The insert shows a picture of mormyrus species caught at the Kpong landing site in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Holding the fish is a middle woman who had come to buy the fish from a fisherman to sell it onward to consumers who would come later to buy from her.