Implementation of Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal Unreported and Unregulated Fishing Regulations 2015.

These Regulations, consisting of 15 sections and completed by six Schedules, regulate the Implementation of Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. In particular, it establishes the following issues: Landing, transshipment, packaging or processing fish taken outside Sri Lanka waters by a foreign fishing boat is allowed only under a license issued by the Director General of the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. The Director General shall take steps to prevent illegal activities being carried out in any port in Sri Lanka except in a port designated and declared in the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission or any port of Sri Lanka authorized by the Director General. Every application for such a license shall be made in the form specified in schedule I and be accompanied by certified boat registration, certificate of authorization to fish in high seas, etc. with a fee of ten thousand rupees. Administrative proceedings to entering of the boat in to the designated port for the first time are specified in the text. Every license shall be subject to the conditions imposed by Director General in conformity with the relevant resolutions adopted by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission and the Port State Measures Agreement. When the Director General has sufficient evidence to believe that a boat has been engaged in IUU Fishing he shall deny entry to the designated port.