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In
Panama the international fishing licenses are established through Executive
Decree No. 19 of November 13, 1997. "whereby it is established and
regulated the international fishing license for vessels of international
services and other measures are taken".
In Article III of
this Executive Decree is established that in order to have a fishing license
approved the following requirements must be fulfilled:
- It should be
corroborated the name of the company and the shipowner's , nationality
and domicile.
- Certificate of
tonnage, and other documents of the vessel, providing its characteristics
and specifications.
- Notify the marine
species that will be captured and the area coordinates where the work
will be carried out.
- Notify the methods
and art of fishing to be used by the vessel in its fishing activities
and /or its characteristics of storage and processing.
- To designate the
ports and areas where the vessels will perform their operations of unloading
and transshipment of their catches.
Other documentation
that will be required from the legal representative to obtain an international
fishing license:
- Certificate of
Proof of Operation of the Monitoring Satellite Buoy. A confirmation
is required, since previously, the license was issued upon submitting
a copy of the contract with C.L.S. company and after receiving the license
they did not follow up with the process neither with the installation
of the equipment.
- To submit the
statistical information on effort and capture of the vessel to renew
the license. This is necessary to comply with the provisions established
on the international agreements on marine species (this issue is noted
in the original international license that is given to the legal representatives).
- It is required
that shipowners send us a picture of the vessels showing its name for
our records.
Besides what is contained
in a circular from the General Directorate of Marine and Coastal Resources
delivered to legal representatives and handed any time information on
international licenses is required, the general objections to reject an
application for an international fishing license are the following:
- To apply for
a license to fish shrimp in jurisdictional waters of third countries,
with the exception of cold climates where there are no turtles (due
to the impossibility of supervising the use of the Turtle Excluding
Device.)
- To apply for a
codfish fishing license in the North Atlantic. With the exception of
vessels that obtain the fishing permit in Z.E.E. of a third country
that allows and has a quota for fishing this specie.
- To apply for a
salmon fishing license in the North Atlantic. With the exception of
vessels that obtain the fishing permit in Z.E.E. of a third country
that allows and has a quota for fishing this specie.
- The vessels that
their license have been previously canceled, for not complying with
the international fishing regulations.
- To the vessels
that apply for a tuna fish fishing license for the first time in the
Atlantic and Mediterranean. With the exception of the vessels that have
obtained previous consent, (this will be consent prior to 1977) until
an agreement is reached with the I.C.C.A.T.
- In case that the
application does not contain all the required information.
The International
Fishing license will be valid for a year, and should be renovated before
the expiring of the same.
The same will have the following rights:
- Vessels up to
2000 gross registry of tonnage, the amount of three thousand dollars
($ 3000.00).
- Vessels larger
than 2000 gross registry of tonnage, the amount of five thousand dollars
($5000.00)
*** The obtaining
of the Fishing License for vessels of International Service and the payment
of the corresponding rights will be a previous requirement to the application
of registry of the same in the Directorate General of Merchant Marine
of the Panama Maritime Authority.
Besides the above
mentioned, the application is analyzed depending on the area (Ocean) the
license has been requested for, the species that will be captured and
the art of fishing that will be utilized.
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