Examples of Fiji waters in a sentence
There are 65km of local roads, 3 post offices and 11 primary health protection centres.
There was also one Japanese distant-water pole-and- line vessel licensed to fish in Fiji waters during 2001.
Any person may, within the Fiji waters, discharge from any ship carrying in bulk a noxious liquid substance, any noxious liquid substance if that noxious liquid substance is part of a discharge of clean ballast water or segregated ballast water.
Penalty: A fine not exceeding $500 (2) Subsection (1) shall not apply where the National Flag is displayed on a vessel within Fiji waters as a courtesy to Fiji.
The Ministry of Primary Industries in Fiji has the practical responsibility for controlling and manag- ing all exploitation of the living resources within Fiji waters, and has plans to devolve even more of the responsibility for regulating inshore fisheries to the owners of traditional fishing rights, according to Ratu Tui Cavuilati, then Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, speaking at the 1992 Parkinson Mem- orial Lecture at the University of the South Pacific.
Two Japanese purse seine vessels were licensed to fish in Fiji waters during 2001.
Table 1 shows the breakdown of domestic vessels licensed to fish in Fiji waters over the last five years.
As such, tabua is strictly regulated under our Endangered and Protected Species Act 2002 which implements CITES at national level.Past historical data shows that whales were in abundance in Fiji waters, which is in contrast to present day numbers after massive whaling took place in the 1900’s.
Exports of sashimi tuna in 2004 was estimated to be F$249.2 million (Fiji Fisheries Department Annual Report, 2004) and the annual catch of 84 longline vessels licensed in Fiji was 14,945 mt of which 8,785 mt was catch from Fiji waters (Ibid).
Fiji waters have also documented 18 confirmed species of cetaceans inclusive of Threatened species identified under IUCN.Fiji participated in a meeting of experts in Samoa over the past week to identify important Marine Mammal areas in the region.