Fishing in Ghana

Blue crabs are delicious. Have you ever wondered how they are caught? Emmanuel, below, is a professional crabber and spends his days hand-making his own traditional crab traps, setting up baits and traps, and packing blue crabs into baskets. Emmanuel, a fisherman in Ghana, hand makes a blue crab trap. Copyright © Muntaka Chasant Takes Emmanuel roughly around 40 minutes to finish hand making a trap — and they can last for up to 6months before he needs to replace them. Highly effective, the hand-made traps are capable of trapping more than 20 small to medium-sized blue crabs at a time. How to Hand Make "Eha" Blue Crab Trap The men called the blue crab traps "Eha," a Ewe word. Ewe is a Niger-Congo language spoken by millions of people in West Africa. The traps are popular among Ewe fishers. Fisherman handmaking traps in Ghana. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantHandmaking blue crabs trap in Ghana. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantA fisherman in Ghana makes a blue crab trap. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantDensu Delta fisherman hand makes a blue crab trap. Accra, Ghana. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantA fisherman handmakes a crab trap in Ghana. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantArtisanal fisherman handmaking crab traps in Ghana. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantGhanaian fisherman makes a blue crab trap. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantBlue crab trap making. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantMan handmaking blue crab trap. Accra, Ghana. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantHandmade blue crab trap making. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantFisherman smiles. Copyright How is the "Eha" Blue Crab Trap Used? "Eha" is a handmade blue crab trap and popular among Ewe fishermen in Ghana. Copyright © Muntaka Chasant Blue crabs are fairly easy to catch with baited "Eha" traps. Emmanuel is a fisherman around the Densu Delta in Accra, Ghana's capital city. He paddles around on his wooden canoe to check up on his traps once or twice every day and pack the blue crabs into plastic baskets. Fisherman paddling a canoe. Copyright © 2020 Muntaka ChasantFisherman in a canoe. Accra, Ghana. Copyright © 2020 Muntaka ChasantHand-made blue crab trap. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantBlue crab fishing in Ghana. Copyright © Muntaka ChasantBlue crab fisherman in Ghana. Copyright © 2020 Muntaka ChasantLive blue crabs. Copyright © Muntaka Chasant Tidal Mangrove Area Tidal mangroves (Avicennia germinans) and salt marshes area. Copyright © Muntaka Chasant You can see the "Eha" blue crab traps lined up nicely in the winding creek in the black mangroves and salt marshes in the aerial view above. Mangroves and salt marshes. Copyright © Muntaka Chasant The blue crab traps in a creek in a mangrove and salt marsh area. Pied kingfisher rests on the shoulder of a handmade crab trap. Accra, Ghana. Copyright © Muntaka Chasant Found this pied kingfisher resting on an "Eha" blue crab trap in between feeding flights. Copyright © 2020 Muntaka Chasant

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