Official Govt & Legal Notices For April 28 2025
The official Government and Legal notices for today [April 28] include fisheries notice.
Fisheries Notice [Grunt Ground Closure] Notice 2025
- Notice type: Government Notice
- Notice sub type: Fisheries Notice
- Notice ID: GN0433/2025
- Public Authorities / Department: Environment and Natural Resources
- Publication date: 28 April, 2025
Fisheries Act 1972
Notice Issued Pursuant To Section 4A Of The Fisheries Act 1972
Take Notice that the Minister responsible for the Environment, being satisfied that there is an immediate need for the prohibition of fishing in a fish aggregation area, for the conservation and protection of the Blue-striped grunt [Haemulon sciurus] hereby notifies all members of the public that fishing in the fish aggregation area described below is prohibited from 1st May 2025 through 30th June 2025:
The area, being roughly rectangular in shape, enclosed by a line running in a north-easterly direction from St. Catherine’s Point, St. George’s to the Southern channel marker #12 [32 degrees 23.6 minutes North, 64 degrees 40.1 minutes West] thence by a line running along the southern boundary of the Southern channel to the Southern channel marker #16 [32 degrees 23.9 minutes North, 64 degrees 40.7 minutes West] thence by a line running in a south-westerly direction to a point 32 degrees 23.4 minutes North, 64 degrees 41.4 minutes West thence by a line running in a south-easterly direction to Fort George, St. George’s.
Fisheries Statistics Notice
- Notice type: Government Notice
- Notice sub type: Fisheries Notice
- Notice ID: GN0432/2025
- Public Authorities / Department: Environment and Natural Resources
- Publication date: 28 April, 2025
Fisheries Statistics
The owner or operator of every licensed fishing vessel is reminded of the obligation to keep a daily log of catch and effort statistics relating to the operation of that licensed fishing vessel, and to make returns of the catch and effort statistics to the Director of Environment and Natural Resources on the fisheries statistics Form 3 or online at www.shellcatch.com. The deadline for the receipt of catch and effort statistics for all fishing vessels for the year 2024 was on 31 January 2025.
Fishing vessel owners or operators who have not submitted all of their 2024 statistics by
30 April 2025 will have committed an offence against the Fisheries Regulations 2010.
Vessel owners and operators are further advised that the deadline for the receipt of catch and effort statistics for the first quarter of 2025 [i.e. 1 January to 31 March 2025] is 30 April 2025. Statistics should be submitted to the Licensing Office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources [DENR] located in the Botanical Gardens, Paget; to the DENR Marine Resources Section Office located on Coney Island, St. George’s; or online at www.shellcatch.com.
For assistance, please contact the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Marine Resources Section at 293-5600 or fisheries@gov.bm.
The official notices above have been republished from the relevant section on the official Government website. If you wish to view ‘hard copies’, the Department of Libraries & Archives prints them and you can visit the main library on Queen Street or the Government Archives in the Government Administration Building on Parliament Street to view them.
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