Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana)

In most part of Africa including Ghana, taboo days were set aside by ancestors during which natives including fishermen do not work. These traditional off-days had been utilized as a means of conservation of our natural resources. Among such days are Thursdays were fishermen at the Kpong fish Landing Site in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region do not go fishing.  The fisherman shown in the photo is using this day judiciously by mending his thorn nets to make ready for the following days expedition.