Aquaculture in Ghana Industrial experiences Halvor Kittelsen Aquaculture in Ghana Industrial experiences

Experiences makes NORGHATI Inbreeds and generally low quality of fingerlings Shortage of fingerlings Shortage of formulated feed produced in Ghana. One feed-mill, the rest is imported. No protocols for transport or biosecurity. Heightened mortality as a result, question of time before threats to the biotic environment result. Some aquaculture regulations are present. General lack of implementation and follow-up inspections. Lack of Applied Science with the research questions stemming from the industry. Benchmarking of available inputs. Lack of both technician and management training and relevant education for the industry. Expatriates take management as result.

Norway - Ghana Raw materials analysis. Feed composition. New local feed mill. Project leader Local breeding facility New Tech. Producers, Export of Norwegian technology Nutrition Administration Breeding program Knowledge pool Technology Management NORGHATI Consortium The Norwegian Model: Cooperation between regulators and industry; Ghana Food and Drug Board and Mattilsynet. Hands on training programs Education of technicians Tilapia Academy Regulatives Over heads Capital Higher education / management training Finance Private Equity meets public investments 1:1 Fish health/ Veterinary services Specific project costs Exchange programs: NTNU, Univ. of Ghana Protocols: Operations, transport, biosecurity etc.

Education of technicians: A (wet) hands on -job

Husbandry Feeding Mooring Net changing Grading Harvest Environmental survey Safety course

Applied Sciences FFL Sunndalsøra, 1975

Commercial agreement: MoreFish AS – Simma Ltd MoreFish has a commercial contract in Ghana, named: Industrial farming of Tilapia at Lake Volta. Bio – Secure RAS hatchery with departments for breeding program Construction of circular PE cages, industrial type. Sludge treatment by aquaponics and agricultural programs for the sludge/fertilizer. (MoreFish` partner on tech. package for hatchery and aquaponics is Pentair Aquatic Eco Systems) Management for hire. Start up and training of personnel. Brood stock programme, phenotype selection. Protocols for the farm 3000 t/y in first phase. Production start-up 2016. Ambitions: Full capacity is 10-12 000 tons Development of closed cages with sediment entrapment for agricultural usage. Aquaculture in East Africa

First outlay of Simma’s hatchery

Prospect «Farmed Tilapia in Lake Volta» MoreFish Norway AS December 2014

Bio-secure RAS hatchery

Why is sucsess for aquaculture, more close for Ghana?

Same Scale

Why Ghana? Knowledge and Technology transfer program from the aquaculture industry in Norway has greater possibility for success in Ghana. Why; because of the position of existing aquaculture production and the relative advantages of the fish consuming population of West Africa. Fish consumption of 25 Kilos per capita per annum. Most conservative market deficit estimate for fish products is about 400 000 tons per annum. Lake Volta has an estimated capacity for 500 – 1 mil tonnes without calculating for eutrophication (1,3 mil tons 5% of surface). Fully utilized as sustainable industrial industry it can more than address the need for import of fish products. And so become a beacon for aquaculture in the whole of Africa. The value chain for the aquaculture in Ghana is in no need of being (re)invented. Existing structures can be worked with. It has thousands of tonnes of production going and the value chain has a fantastic potential for blossoming. Existing experiences and technological solutions from Norway can heavily boost this volumes. Without regulations and especially executions of such, resolution of problems will also be heavily boosted. Ghana becomes the show room: For African nations/regions aiming for creation of aquaculture as a sustainable industry For export of technology and know-how companies in Norway.

Zig-Zag Graph of development by Dr John Mohel FaO West Africa Why NORGHATI? NORGHATI becomes a knowledge and technology transfer program building on practical experiences and needs from the receiver. NORGHATI is lending experiences from somewhat similar initiatives from Norway to Thailand, Bosnia and South Korea. The motor of the program is the industry. The solutions to challenges sought mended need to be relevant for the actors in the business. Paramount important to choose an area where success is within reach of the program, Also so such programs can be developed for more difficult areas with less existing experience in aquaculture. Focus on economically viable industry. A broad and relevant initiative, where ecological, social and economical problems are addressed sustainably. Zig-Zag Graph of development by Dr John Mohel FaO West Africa