Functions

• Fisheries policy
• Fisheries marketing policy
• Fishing licensing
• Development of fisheries
• Fish quality assurance
• Co-ordination of development of policy, legal, regulatory and institutional framework for the fisheries industry and the blue economy
• Enhancement of technical cooperation with partner states
• Co-ordinating maritime spatial planning and integrated coastal zone management
• Protection and regulation of maritime ecosystems
• Management and licensing of local and foreign fishing trawlers in kenya waters.
• Protection of the maritime resources in EEZ
• Overall policy for exploitation of agro-based maritime resources
• Policy on development of fishing ports and associated infrastructure
• Capacity building for sustainable exploitation of agro-based maritime resources

More information – http://library.kmfri.co.ke