Offshore Fisheries Management Regulations 2014 (L.N. No. 18 of 2014).

These Regulations, made by the Minister for Fisheries and Forests under section 104 of the Offshore Fisheries Management Decree 2012, implement provisions of the Decree and provide rules with respect to fisheries management and conservation measures (including authorization of fisheries), domestic fisheries development and monitoring, control and surveillance of fisheries. They also concern port state measures to prevent illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries and issuance of export permit to export fish or fish products for commercial purposes. A fish export certificate shall not be granted in case of illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries.
As for fish resources conservation measures, a foreign fishing vessel and Fiji fishing vessel shall not conduct any fishing or related activities within a prohibited or restricted fishing area described in Schedule 1 and any prohibited area declared in accordance with the Environment Management Act 2005 or any other written law and person shall not kill, take, land, sell or offer or expose for sale, deal in, transport, receive or possess any endangered or protected fish listed in Schedule 2B. Other measures concern, among other things, use of gear, transshipment of fish.
The Regulations provide protection of the local fishing industry by control of chartering of foreign fishing vessels with a special attention to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities. Fish shall be landed only at designated ports.