{"id":20497,"date":"2020-12-24T00:39:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T00:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=20497"},"modified":"2020-12-24T00:39:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T00:39:36","slug":"govt-illegal-fishing-will-land-you-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/govt-illegal-fishing-will-land-you-in-jail","title":{"rendered":"Govt: Illegal fishing will land you in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>THE government has warned against illegal fishing practices, citing stern legal measures to those who will be caught.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Minister for Livestock and Fisheries, Ms Pauline Gekul issued the warning when she met some fishermen during her tour in Manyara Region on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Without going into details, Ms Gekul said the previous anti-illegal fishing activities forced the government to spend about 1.2bn\/- in crackdown, something that should not be repeated.<\/p>\n<p>However, she urged them to give the government maximum cooperation in bringing to an end the malpractice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe illegal acts are not acceptable; we need to come up with a solution for the problem\u2026as key persons, you need to collaborate with the government to end illegal fishing in your midst,\u201d she pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, managing and ending the malpractice will help to increase fish stocks in the county\u2019s water bodies.<\/p>\n<p>She, however, called upon the fishers to do away with illegal fishing nets in particular and instead show support to the government.<\/p>\n<p>Besides addressing the illegal fishing, she highlighted the government\u2019s other priorities as strengthening fish farming in ponds, noting that if well managed it will increase jobs, eradicate poverty and in turn boost the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Minister equally urged District Executive Directors (DEDs) among other leaders to see the possibility of using part of the 10 per cent funds given to women, youth and people living with disabilities to carry out a search for the startup of fish farming business instead of giving them cash money.<\/p>\n<p>In another development, Ms Gekul directed the DEDs and fisheries officers to reach out to all fishermen and make sure they pay for their fishing licenses as a revenue to the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should be implemented immediately; everyone should feel good about meeting their financial obligations\u2026 pay taxes and acquire your receipts on time\u2026 for the government to obtain its revenues,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Babati District Commissioner (DC), Mr Lazaro Twange acknowledged receipt to all the directives and pledged to work on them, saying: \u201cWe are going to reach out to all fishermen and make sure all their problems are solved and the government acquires its revenues,\u201d asserted Mr Twange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. THE government has warned against illegal fishing practices, citing stern legal measures to those who will be caught. Deputy Minister for Livestock and Fisheries, Ms Pauline Gekul issued the warning when she met some fishermen during her tour in Manyara Region on Monday. Without going into details, Ms Gekul said the previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[6990,711],"class_list":["post-20497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt: Illegal fishing will land you in jail - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/govt-illegal-fishing-will-land-you-in-jail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt: Illegal fishing will land you in jail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. 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