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Licensing & Information Unit

The Licensing and Information Group is responsible for processing license applications and renewals, receiving and entering catch and export data into relevant databases, providing information to stakeholders and regional organisations and maintaining the NFA central filing system and the library.

The core functions of the Licensing and Information Group are:

• Administering the licensing scheme and issuing approved licences
• Monitoring and ensuring the integrity and accuracy and completeness of data received
• Entering data on vessel activities, catch and exports and providing summarise data on exports, catch & harvesting, transhipment and as required under access agreements, for fisheries management and monitoring, control and surveillance purposes and to enable NFA to effectively carry out its functions
• Managing the distribution of mail and faxes and maintain proper registry of incoming and outgoing documents of Filetrak registry
• Providing central filing of shared and critical information

• ensuring strict, accurate and timely reporting of critical catch and export data to NFA by licensed operators
• establishment of a central fisheries database and publication of annual summaries within three months
• ensure that the recommendations made to the National Fisheries Board are valid and concur with the current Fisheries Legislation
• streamlining the licensing process so that licences applications are processed on a timely basis and approved licenses issued on time
• ensuring that the licensing database is up to date and accurately reflects all licenses issued
• responding to requests for information on licensing within 2 working days
• implementing and managing the central filing system for shared and critical files to ensure security and ready access of important information
• ensuring the control and efficient distribution of external mail, faxes and internal mail