In a bid to ascertain and mitigate the impacts of the construction of a sea port by CTC Ports and Logistics Company on fisheries in the Sierra Leone River estuaries and Bankasoka River in the Western Area Rural and Port Loko Districts, experts in the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources have commenced a 15th-day baseline survey in the designated Fisheries and Marine Protected Areas.
According to the Head of Marine Artisanal and Aquaculture Division in the Ministry of Fisheries, Sheku Sei, the main thrust of the exercise is to characterize the fisheries in the Sierra Leone River Estuaries and Bankasoka River as baseline information that would be recommended for further actions by the government and partners.
The fisheries survey, he said, will continue for another fifteen days in the Yawry Bay Marine Protected Area (MPA) Banana/Rickets Island and Kent axis, where a seaport will also be constructed by Gento Group of Companies (SL) Limited.
