Environmentalist calls on FAO to release study on fish catch

Environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly has written to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) calling on it to release a study which purports to say that Guyana’s oil and gas industry is not causing the low fish catch being experienced by fishermen here.

In a letter yesterday to Julio Berdeague, Assistant Director General of the FAO,  Mangal-Joly cites a May 22, 2022 Demerara Waves article: “Oil industry not responsible for low fish catch – FAO study”  where it was reported that Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha had stated that offshore oil and gas activities have not played a role in the decline of the fish catch. The letter said that the report attributed this conclusion to a United Nations’ FAO study, and further stated that the public can confirm this with the FAO.