{"id":11213,"date":"2014-07-27T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T20:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=11213"},"modified":"2014-07-27T22:45:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T20:45:50","slug":"water-lily-on-the-kpong-stretch-of-volta-river-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=11213","title":{"rendered":"Water lily on the Kpong stretch of Volta River (Ghana)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit<\/strong>:Patrick Appenteng (Ghana)<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Aquatic weeds which pose a lot of threat to the natural ecosystem of most water resources can never be overlooked; most of which are invasive. Apart from the fact that it hinders the optimum growth of target fishes, it also obstructs navigation, among many others.The insert shows water lily taking a toll on the Kpong stretch of the Volta river in the Lower Manya Krobo District of Ghana.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Water-lily-in-Volta-River-Ghana.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?attachment_id=11215\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Water-lily-in-Volta-River-Ghana.jpg?fit=974%2C726&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"974,726\" 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=\"Water lily in Volta River (Ghana)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Water-lily-in-Volta-River-Ghana.jpg?fit=750%2C559&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11215\" alt=\"Water lily in Volta River (Ghana)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Water-lily-in-Volta-River-Ghana-300x223.jpg?resize=300%2C223\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Water-lily-in-Volta-River-Ghana.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Water-lily-in-Volta-River-Ghana.jpg?w=974&amp;ssl=1 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit:Patrick Appenteng (Ghana) Aquatic weeds which pose a lot of threat to the natural ecosystem of most water resources can never be overlooked; most of which are invasive. Apart from the fact that it hinders the optimum growth of target fishes, it also obstructs navigation, among many others.The insert shows water lily taking a toll &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=11213\">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":[1286,5194,5195,2141,5193,4892],"class_list":["post-11213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquaculture-and-artisanal-fishery-global-information-sharing","category-gallery-2","category-photos","tag-ghana","tag-kpong-stretch","tag-lower-manya-krobo","tag-threats","tag-volta-river","tag-water-lily","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1NIq6-2UR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213","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=11213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}