1 of 1
Story summary
- Dr. Issah Seidu persuaded 200 people to stop catching guitarfish, earning a Whitley Award.
- AquaLife Conservancy trains fishermen in safe-release, GPS-mapping of breeding sites, and provides soap-making and snail farming to boost incomes.
- Seidu aims to move Ghana’s four guitarfish from CITES Appendix II to Appendix I, which would ban trade.
- DNA testing shows guitarfish fins are often mixed with shark fins sold for hundreds of dollars per kilogram in Asian markets.
