📑 Law No. 94/01 of 20 January 1994 to lay down forestry, wildlife and fisheries regulations in Cameroon, Part 5, Chapter 2, Section 116, Sub-section 1

" Any natural person or corporate body wishing to exploit fishery resources at the industrial level shall first of all apply for a licence or permit in accordance with the procedure laid down by decree."

⌚ Date Published: 1994-01-20
⚖️ Instrument Type: Law
Country: 🇨🇲 Cameroon
🌍 Continent : Africa
📜Instrument: Law No. 94/01 of 20 January 1994 to lay down forestry, wildlife and fisheries regulations in Cameroon
Law_No._94-01_on_Forestry_Wildlife_and_Fisheries_Page28 - aticles 115, 116, 117, 118, 119 & 120

DEFINITION OF TERMS IN THIS CLAUSE



🔑 FIS
FIS

➡ Refers to the joint France-Cote d´Ivoire-Senegal fleet that targets tropical tunas off Africa.


🔑 Fish
Fish

➡ harvest of uncultured fish from water bodies.


🔑 Fish
Fish

➡ cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with gills, no digits, and no limbs other than fins which swims by using its fins and tail.


🔑 Fisher
Fisher

➡ person who engages in fishing activities, or is employed or engaged in any capacity or carrying out an occupation on board any fishing vessel, including persons working on board who are paid on the basis of a share of the catch but excluding pilots, naval personnel, other persons in the permanent service of a government, shore-based persons carrying out work aboard a fishing vessel and fisheries observers.


🔑 Fishery
Fishery

➡  any activity related to the culture, management, harvest, processing or marketing of aquatic animals (finfish, shellfish, molluscs, crustaceans, etc.) or plants (seaweeds, alga, etc.).


🔑 Fishery resource
Fishery resource

➡ Any harvestable natural or cultured living resource (fish, crustaceans, molluscs and algae) from marine, estuarine and fresh water environments, living in the water or on the seabed (sedentary organisms).


🔑 Licence
Licence

➡ an official document that shows that permission has been given to carry out fishery activities, to own or to operate a fishery equipment.