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Department Objectives |
In line with the New Economic
Policy and the Outline Prespective Plan Sabah, the 3rd
National Agriculture Policy and the 2nd Sabah
Agriculture Policy, the objectives of the Department of
Fisheries Sabah are as follows:
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To uplift
the socio-economic status of the state’s fishery
community;
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To guide
and encourage the development of the state’s
fishery in the right direction;
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To
increase the fish production from the capture
fishery and aquaculture;
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To manage
the state’s fishery resources at the optimum
level to ensure an adequate supply of fish
sources;
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To carry
out fishery research in fishery technology,
aquaculture and the state’s fishery resources;
and
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To develop
fisheries industry as a commercial, modern and
competitive sector.
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Department Functions |
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The following are the
main functions of the Department:
- To formulate and
operate the development policies in
fisheries sector which are aimed improving
the prosperity of the industry's
stakeholders, and to co-ordinate, monitor
and evaluate to implementation of such
policies;
- To undertake and
implement natural and fisheries resources
management principally through regulation
(licensing) activities of fishing efforts;
- To undertake and
implement the regulation (licensing) of
aquaculture:
- To implement a
fisheries statistics and information system
that is directly connected to fisheries and
aquaculture;
- To carry out
development and upgrading of the
socio-economic status of target groups –
fishermen, fish farmers and fish processors;
- To undertake
research projects especially those directly
or closely related to fishing, fisheries and
aquaculture, and fisheries resources;
- To carry out
programs that are aimed to increase
fisheries commodities;
- To develop human
resources for participation in the
development of the local fisheries and
aquaculture industries, including promoting
and upgrading of stakeholders' technical
skills and knowledge, and make an effective
use of such human resources;
- To carry out
programs that are intended to develop the
local capture fisheries and aquaculture
industries so as to make this sector one
that is commercial and developed but at the
same time, that such development is done on
a sustainable basis; and
- To co-ordinate and
co-operate with internal and external
organisations, non-governmental
organisations for the development of
fisheries sector.
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