Fisheries (Amendment) Regulations, 2024

Fisheries (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 FISHERIES ACT CAP. 63:01 VOL. 9 LAWS OF THE GAMBIA, 2009 FISHERIES (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2024 IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred on the Minister by section 106 of the Fisheries Act, these Regulations are made. 1. Citation and Commencement These Regulations may be cited as the Fisheries (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 and shall be deemed to have come into effect from the 1*' day of February 2024. 2. Amendment of Fisheries Regulations The Fisheries Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations. 3. Amendment of regulation 26 Regulation 26 is amended in paragraph (r) by substituting for the words, “thirty percent’, the words, “twenty to fifty percent”. 4. Amendment of regulation 68 Regulation 68 is amended — (a) in paragraph (g) by deleting the words “semi-industrial vessel’. (6) in paragraph (h) by substituting for the words, “seven nautical miles’, the words, “nine nautical miles”. 5. Amendment of regulation 74A Regulation 74A (2) is amended in paragraph (a) by substituting for the words, “five hundred thousand dalasis”, the words, “two million dalasis;”. 6. Amendment of Second Schedule The Second Schedule of the Fisheries Regulations is amended in Part Il, by substituting for the licence fees for foreign fishing vessels and local fishing vessels, the following — Fisheries (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 FOREIGN VESSEL LICENSE FEES CATEGORY CURRENT REVISED LICENSE FEE LICENSE FEE 100% SHRIMP D12,188/GRT/ANNUM D24,376/GRT/ANNUM FISH AND D9,750/GRT/ANNUM D19,500/GRT/ANNUM CEPHALOPODS PROCESSING | D5,850/GRT/ANNUM D11,700/GRT/ANNUM VESSEL PELAGIC D4,875/GRT/ANNUM D9,750/GRT/ANNUM TRAWLERS/SEIN NER (For small pelagic) TUNA VESSEL (i) TUNA VESSEL D4,680/GRT/ANNUM D9,360/GRT/ANNUM (ii) PURSE SEINNER PRIOR TO LICENSING A lump sum of D819, 000.00 per annum (equivalent to catch of 100 tons of Tuna per annum) A lump sum of D1,638, 000.00 per annum (equivalent to catch of 100 tons of Tuna per annum) (iii)FOR LONG LINER A lump sum of D409, A lump sum of D819, 000.00 per AND POLE 500.00 per annum | annum (equivalent to catch of 50 tons AND LINE (equivalent to catch of 50 | of Tuna per annum) VESSEL tons of Tuna per annum) LOCAL VESSEL LICENSE FEES CATEGORY CURRENT LICENSE REVISED LICENSE FEE 100% FEE SHRIMP D8,125/GRT/ANNUM D16,250/GRT/ANNUM FISH AND | D6,140/GRT/ANNUM D12,280/GRT/ANNUM CEPHALOPODS PROCESSING VESSEL | D4,680/GRT/ANNUM D9,360 /GRT/ANNUM PELAGIC D3,684/GRT/ANNUM D7,368/GRT/ANNUM TRAWLERS/SEINNER (For small pelagic) Fisheries (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 (i) TUNA VESSEL D2,145 per ton of Tuna | D4,290 per ton of Tuna caught in the caught in the fisheries | fisheries waters. *** waters. *** (ii)PURSE SEINNER|A lump sum of D65,/A lump sum of D130, 000.00 per PRIOR TO | 000.00 per annum | annum (equivalent to catch of 100 LICENSING (equivalent to catch of | tons of Tuna per annum) 100 tons of Tuna per annum) (iii/FOR LONG LINER|A lump sum of D24,/A lump sum of D48, 750.00 per AND POLE | 375.00 per annum | annum (equivalent to catch of 50 tons AND LINE | (equivalent to catch of 50 | of Tuna per annum) VESSEL tons of Tuna per annum) *** The tariff on the foreign license fee is calculated per GRT/Annum, whereas in the local fee it is calculated per ton of Tuna caught. MADE this A ... Day of A MINISTER OF FISHERIES, WATER RESOURCES AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MATTERS |