Cap. 425 чл. 4Director responsible for fisheries and fisheries protection officers.

(1) (1) This Act shall be administered by the Director who shall be a public officer, appointed by the Prime Minister, and who shall be responsible for:

(a) the conservation of naturally occurring fish stocks;

(b) the assessment of fish stocks and the collection of statistics including details of fish catches;

(c) the development and management of fisheries;

(d) the maintenance of a register of fishing vessels, their owners, masters, crew and any other person working on them;

(e) the monitoring, control and surveillance of fishing operations;

(f) the regulation of the conduct of fishing operations including aquaculture and operations ancillary thereto;

(g) the issue, variation, suspension and revocation of fishing permits and licences for fishing, and equipment used for fishing, aquaculture, transhipment and other activities for which permits or licences are required under this Act;

(h) the collection of fees in respect of fishing permits and licences, of entries in the fishing vessels register, and for all other categories of permits and licences mentioned in paragraph (g);

(i) the making of such reports to the Minister as the latter may require or as the Director shall consider appropriate;

(j) the taking of appropriate measures in consultation with such other authority as may from time to time be responsible for the environment and for the safeguard against extinction of protected species; and

(k) any other matters which shall require administration under this Act.

(2) The Director may authorise in writing any public officer to exercise any or all of the powers of the Director under this Act either concurrently with him or in his absence, subject to such conditions, including those relative to territorial restrictions, as he may stipulate in the authorisation.

(3) This Act shall be enforced by fisheries protection officers as designated by the Director and acting under the direction of the Director, and for that purpose fisheries protection officers shall have the powers set out under this Act..