{"id":8578,"date":"2013-08-03T15:39:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T13:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2014-09-15T18:11:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:11:03","slug":"fish-smoking-in-elmina-central-region-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=8578","title":{"rendered":"Fish smoking in Elmina, Central region (Ghana)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\">Credit:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"> John Francis Ababio (Ghana)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The two photos show fish smoking in Elmina in the Central Region of Ghana.\u00a0Fish is smoked using an oven constructed with mud bricks. This oven is called the <b><i>Chorkor smoker<\/i><\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Smoking is mostly done by fishmongers who buy the fresh fish from fishermen. In Ghana, most of the fishing vessels are owned by women. These women take the fish from the fishermen and then sell to other fish traders. Otherwise, they smoke or dry it and transport it to the cities and market centers to sell.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-01.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8576\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?attachment_id=8576\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-01.jpg?fit=1125%2C852&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1125,852\" 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 smoking in Ghana (01)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-01.jpg?fit=750%2C568&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-01-300x227.jpg?resize=300%2C227\" alt=\"Fish smoking in Ghana (01)\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-01.jpg?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-01.jpg?resize=1024%2C775&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-01.jpg?w=1125&amp;ssl=1 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-02.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8577\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?attachment_id=8577\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-02.jpg?fit=1125%2C845&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1125,845\" 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 smoking in Ghana (02)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-02.jpg?fit=750%2C563&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8577\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-02-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Fish smoking in Ghana (02)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-02.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-02.jpg?resize=1024%2C769&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fish-smoking-in-Ghana-02.jpg?w=1125&amp;ssl=1 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: John Francis Ababio (Ghana) The two photos show fish smoking in Elmina in the Central Region of Ghana.\u00a0Fish is smoked using an oven constructed with mud bricks. This oven is called the Chorkor smoker. Smoking is mostly done by fishmongers who buy the fresh fish from fishermen. In Ghana, most of the fishing vessels &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=8578\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5375,291,293],"tags":[3510,3508,1907,1067,24,1286,1948,3509,2365],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-fish-processing-cleaning-cooling-freezing-drying-salting-smoking","category-gallery-2","category-photos","tag-chorkor-smoker","tag-elmina","tag-fish-marketing","tag-fish-smoking","tag-fish-trade","tag-ghana","tag-smoked-fish","tag-smokers","tag-smoking-and-smoked-fish","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1NIq6-2em","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","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=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11735,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}