Deep Sea Fisheries Management and Development Regulations, 2021.

This Regulation consisting of 95 articles is divided into IX Parts. Part II focuses on (i) sustainable fisheries management and conservation by stating the general principles to be met, such as (a) precautionary principle; (b) polluter pays principle; (c) principle of ecosystem integrity; (d) principle of public participation; and (e) principle of international and regional cooperation in the management of fishery resources; (ii) conservation and management measures to be met by any fishing vessel in the Exclusive Economic Zone or Tanzanian fishing vessel in any area beyond national jurisdiction or that is within the area of competence of a relevant RFMO, including (a) allocations, areas, gear, closures, fishing capacity, quotas, participatory rights, and reporting; (b) landing, transporting, transshipping, receiving, or possession of fish; (c) restoration of fish stocks; (d) incentives; (iii) measures for the conservation of some kind of sharks, wales, marine turtles, incidental bycatch of seabirds; (iv) rules for the use of specific fishing gears, including gear set marking, fish aggregating devices, use of artificial lights, fishing on data buoys, largescale driftnets, aircraft, midwater trawl, and other fishing methods; (v) punishments for non-compliance with the provisions.
Part III deals with licenses system and rules for both foreign fishing vessels and national fishing vessels, as well as authorizations and permissions. In particular (i) procedures for the applications; (ii) pre-licensing inspection requirements; (iii) grounds for a refusal to grant licenses, authorizations, or permissions; (iv) fees or charges; (v) terms and conditions to be respected; (vi) duration; (vii) suspension and cancellation; (viii) rules for the special purpose licenses (marine scientific research, exploratory fishing, collection of fish specimens for a museum, educational purposes, supply of food in case of an emergency where no other adequate food supply is available, sports fishing); (ix) logbooks and reporting; (x) conditions for landing and transshipment; (xi) Mobile Transceiver Unit registration; (xii) clearance for registration of fishing vessels.
Part IV regards the requirements for fishing vessels and fisheries access agreement. A foreign fishing is required to have an agent and the Regulation indicates all the procedures to be followed in this regard. Part V regards the monitoring control and surveillance by (i) a fishery inspector, including the powers (entry and search, take, detain, remove and secure information and evidence, detain persons, or seizure vessels or gear, arrest); (ii) a fishery observer. A Vessel Monitoring Operation Center is established for the purposes of monitoring the activities of fishing vessels by receiving and recording information through Mobile Transceiver Units and Automatic Identification System. This Part deals also with Prerequisites for entry or use of ports, including the denial of entry and denial of use of port after entry. Part VI is on the information, data, and statistics, in particular (i) collection of information, also regarding some species of tuna; (ii) record keeping; (iii) confidential information; (iv) required documentation for tuna import, export, or reexport; (v) sharing of information. Part VII deals with the appeals and the manner of lodging appeal to the Minister against a decision of the Director General. Parts VIII and IX regard respectively form, manner and procedures for compounding of offence, and the General Provisions.