Guidelines for Registration and Issuance of Identity Card of Fishermen, 2019.

These Guidelines, issued by the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, establish procedures for registration, verification, database management, and issuance of identity cards for fishermen operating throughout Bangladesh. The Guidelines pursue two principal objectives: creation of an updated list and database of fishermen through registration and identification; ensuring that government assistance and fisheries support programmes benefit genuine fishers and reducing opportunities for misuse. The Guidelines provide for: supporting fisheries governance; facilitating targeted distribution of government assistance; reducing fraud and duplication in beneficiary programmes; fisher welfare schemes; compensation programmes; fisheries-sector development initiatives.