Government slaps fishing vessels with 19bn/- fine
THE government has imposed 19bn/- fines to fishing vessels and ordered them to pay within 14 days for violating terms of their licences, by practising illegal fishing and polluting the environment in the deep sea.
On top of that, the state has also issued a directive to the Deep Sea Fishing Authority (DSFA) to write a notice to owners of vessels and the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) concerning the decision.
Minister for Livestock and Fisheries, Luhaga Mpina (pictured) said in Zanzibar, yesterday, that the decision was reached following vessels violating the Deep Sea Fishing Authority Act of 1998, regulation number 10, together with number 68 of Deep Sea Regulations of 2009 and its amendment of 2016, for not reporting to the Port of Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Tanga or Mtwara for inspection before leaving Tanzanian deep sea.
“With this act of violation of their licence means they have involved themselves in illegal fishing, polluting the environment significantly, have conducted arbitrary fishing and other offences in the deep sea, these acts made the government to lose income,” said Mpina.
He added that the government was not ready to work with people who break the law and that the operation to seize such fishing vessels will continue until all perpetrators are arrested.
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