Contact Info

Office Coastal Zone Management Complex, Princess Margaret Drive, Belize City

Call +501-203-26235

Email hello@fisheries.gov.bz

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Belize City
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Managing fishing licenses and operations

Administrative Unit

Objectives

The Administrative Unit works towards:

Proper compensation for staff
Ensuring that staff are properly compensated for work done via salaries, subsistence and allowances.
Leave allocation compliance
Ensuring that staff adheres to their conditions of service such as reporting sick leaves, vacation leaves, and maternity leaves.
Productive work environment
  1. Providing a working environment conducive to staff productivity
  2. Maintaining a forum for the effortlessness exchange of information.
Conditions of service
Keeping staff aware and familiar with their conditions of service.

Need a replacement license?

Apply and pay the replacement fee.

License Management

Issues licenses and permits administered by the Fisheries Department. These include fisherfolk, fishing vessel, sea cucumber, sharkfin, seafood export, whelk, shark, and gill net.

Fishers and Fishing Vessels are licensed to specific Access Areas

Human Resource Management

The administrative assistant is keep employees up to date. 

Clerical · Inventory Management

The inventory clerk maintains s a list of tangible items that the government purchases for the effective running of the department such as vehicle care and the issuance of gas vouchers among others. 

The clerical secretary is responsible for the employee registry, directing incoming calls, making outgoing calls as well as directing public inquiries to the appropriate unit.

Accounts

Sundries. Expenses. Purchases. Salaries.

Fisherfolk License Issuance

2013 - First-Issue vs Renewal
2014 - First-Issue vs Renewal
Total Fisherfolk Licenses Issued - 2013 vs 2014

Fishing Vessel License Issuance

2013 - Commercial Fishing Vesel License Issuance by Class
2014 - Commercial Fishing Vesel License Issuance by Class
Total Fishing Vessel Licenses Issued - 2013 vs 2014

Seafood Export Permits

CITES Seafood Export Permits Issued - 2013 vs 2014

Aquatic Resource Use Permits

2013 - Black Coral, Aquarium and Research Permit Issuance
2014 - Black Coral, Aquarium and Research Permit Issuance

Regulations, Educational, and Technical Resources are available for review and download.

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