Section 1

Fisheries Resources special licence, and may be renewed for a like period upon payment of the prescribed fee. (7) Every holder of a sea cucumber special fishing licence shall furnish to the Fisheries Administrator by the end of November of each year the following information– (a) complete details of meat weight in pounds; (b) quantity and species fished; (c) area fished; and (d) date and time each catch was fished. (8) Every holder of a sea cucumber special fishing licence who does not furnish the information requested by the Fisheries Administrator as prescribed in subregulation (7) above, shall be refused a sea cucumber special fishing licence in the following year. (9) Every person fishing for sea cucumber shall fish within the established quota, area of extraction and season as prescribed in the special licence issued by the Fisheries Administrator. (10) No person shall fish for, or harvest, at any time in the waters of Belize, or buy, sell, have in his possession, export, or attempt to export, any sea cucumber between July 1st and December 31st, inclusive, in any year. (11) The Fisheries Administrator shall, on a yearly basis, determine the catch quota, areas of extraction and season of extraction of the sea cucumber and shall cause its findings to be published in the Government Gazette and in three widely circulated newspapers in Belize.