High Seas Fishing Operations Regulations No. 1 of 2014.

These Regulations establish that no person shall engage in any fishing operation specified in the Schedule I hereto in the High Seas except under the authority of a valid licence granted by the Director-General. Every application for a licence for fishing operations in the High Seas referred to in regulation 2 shall be substantially in the form specified in Schedule II hereto and be submitted to the Director-General accompanied with the relevant licence fee specified in the Schedule III hereto. Every licence granted under regulation 2 shall be substantially, in the form specified in the Schedule IV hereto and shall be valid for a period of one calendar year from the date of grant of such licence unless suspended or cancelled earlier. The holder of a licence granted under regulation 2 may apply to the Director-General for renewal of such licence, not later than thirty days before the expiry of the licence accompanied with the relevant licence fee specified in the Schedule III hereto. The holder of a licence granted for fishing operations in the High Seas shall comply with the following conditions imposed by the Director-General for fishing operations in the High Seas under the conservation and management measures adopted in keeping with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of December 10, 1982, Indian Ocean Tuna Commission and Fish Stocks Agreement 1995 and United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing 2009. Any person granted with a licence under regulation 2 shall not be permitted to unload or tranship fish in any port of any other country.
These are the Prescribed Fishing Operations for High Seas: 1. Purse Seine fishing operations. 2. Long Line fishing operations. 3. Gillnet cum Longline fishing operations. 4. Gillnet fishing operations. 5. Pole and line fishing operations. 6. Handline fishing operations. 7. Trolling fishing operations.