Regulations on fishing licence management, 1989.

Regulations to protect and rationally utilize fishery resources, regulate fishing intensity, maintain production order, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of fishing operators and promote fishery development. A licence mechanism is devised identifying three types of licences: Fishing licence (including licences for fishing in coastal waters, high seas and inland waters); special fishing licence and; temporary fishing licence. Licensing authorities, procedures and conditions attached to each type of licence are then defined.