{"id":10917,"date":"2014-05-26T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=10917"},"modified":"2014-05-26T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T13:30:40","slug":"fish-trapping-in-volta-lake-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=10917","title":{"rendered":"Fish trapping in Volta Lake in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Credit:<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"> Patrick Appenteng\u00a0(Ghana)<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Most water bodies in the world are being exploited using various gears. Among such gears is what is seen here. It is a local gear made from palm fronds called \u201cborxe\u201d in the <i style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u201cEwe\u201d <\/i>local language in Ghana and it is a fish trap. It is used in catching green tilapia (Tilapia zillii) and some other cichlids in the lake.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This picture was taken at the Volta Lake stretch at the Kpong landing site in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region of Ghana.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fish-trapping-in-Volta-Lake-in-Ghana.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10919\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?attachment_id=10919\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fish-trapping-in-Volta-Lake-in-Ghana.jpg?fit=1265%2C957&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1265,957\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Fish trapping in Volta Lake in Ghana\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fish-trapping-in-Volta-Lake-in-Ghana.jpg?fit=750%2C567&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10919\" alt=\"Fish trapping in Volta Lake in Ghana\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fish-trapping-in-Volta-Lake-in-Ghana-300x226.jpg?resize=300%2C226\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fish-trapping-in-Volta-Lake-in-Ghana.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fish-trapping-in-Volta-Lake-in-Ghana.jpg?resize=1024%2C774&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fish-trapping-in-Volta-Lake-in-Ghana.jpg?w=1265&amp;ssl=1 1265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Patrick Appenteng\u00a0(Ghana) Most water bodies in the world are being exploited using various gears. Among such gears is what is seen here. It is a local gear made from palm fronds called \u201cborxe\u201d in the \u201cEwe\u201d local language in Ghana and it is a fish trap. It is used in catching green tilapia (Tilapia &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=10917\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[359,291,293],"tags":[4974,4975,4628,1286,4976,4937,4889,4977,4664,4899],"class_list":["post-10917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquaculture-and-artisanal-fishery-global-information-sharing","category-gallery-2","category-photos","tag-borxe","tag-ewe","tag-fish-trapping","tag-ghana","tag-green-tilapia","tag-kpong-landing-site","tag-lake-volta","tag-tilapia-zillii","tag-traps","tag-volta-lake","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1NIq6-2Q5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10920,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions\/10920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}