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Fish Vendor busy at the Tanji Sea site |
Fish
sellers in the Serrekunda market which can be considered as one of the biggest
market that supplied more than 200,000 inhabitants with daily fish consumptions
cried low catch of fish nowadays.
In
an exclusive chat with Mansa Banko Blog, speaker after speaker lamented the high
cost of fish saying that nowadays, they are not getting plenty fish from the
fishermen compared to the past five years thus the price of fish is escalating
daily in the market.
Mrs.
Meita Bojang, narrated that she have been in the fishing industry buying and
selling fish (Bonga) for the past seven (7) years, and noted that “the prices
fluctuate as sometimes it is cheap and a
times its expensive.”
“When we got it at cheap price from the
fishermen, we also sell it at cheap price and if we get it at an expensive
price vice versa,” she said.