Tanzania National Fisheries Sector Policy and Strategy Document.

Tanzania National Fisheries Sector Policy and Strategy Document is a sectoral policy prepared with the goal of promoting conservation, development, and sustainable management of the fisheries resources for the benefit of present and future generations.
To make fisheries more productive and sustainable, efforts will be focused on controlling and banning destructive fishing and processing methods, monitoring and review of environmental protection measures applied in the fisheries sector, promoting protection of eco-systems and eco-processes, protecting endangered, vulnerable, and threatened aquatic species and habitats, discouraging mining of live coral to minimize destruction of coral reef ecosystem, developing water quality monitoring systems, and promoting efforts that combat the spread of noxious-water weeds.
Reduction of rural poverty is another goal of this policy. Because fisheries contribute significantly to the supply of food and employ many people and generate substantial income, development efforts in the fisheries sector have to consider the objective of poverty alleviation. To promote fish production and generate income the following strategies will be employed: i) Encourage the allocation and utilisation of fisheries in favour of rural communities; ii) Empower women, regarded as natural resources managers; iii) Promotion of private investment to stimulate fish production, processing, and marketing, and other related social economic activities.
To enable more inclusive and efficient fisheries systems, efforts will be focused on increasing stakeholder participation (including private sector, NGOs, etc) to increase investments in the fishing industry via joint ventures and fisheries inputs (such as boat building, fishing gears, equipment, etc), eco-tourism, fisheries products, cooperation in joint research and training, technical assistance in the development of aquaculture practices, development of fisheries infrastructure, and empowerment of communities to participate in the management and conservation of the fisheries environment. Further, to help with efficiency, efforts will be focused on increasing the efficient use of available resources in order to increase fish production and availability, improving knowledge of the fisheries resources base, establishing national strategic/applied research programmes, increasing resources utilization and marketing, establishing national training and educational programmes, and promotion of aquaculture development. The gender perspective will be incorporated in the development of the fisheries sector and gender equity will be encouraged at all levels of fisheries development.
Various institutions and stakeholders will be involved in the implementation and monitoring of the sector policy including the Fisheries Department, local government, local community, NGOs, private sector, regional and international community, as well as government agencies and other state institutions. The Fisheries department will be primarily responsible for the fisheries management and administration as well as conservation.