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Leading Environmental Protection NGO Responds to Ghana’s Controversial Decision to Re-License a Chinese Trawler

by Eric Claude Olander

The London-based Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) responded this week to the Ghanaian government’s controversial decision to renew the fishing license for the Chinese trawler Lu Rong Yuan Yu 956.

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