Section 3: Application for a licence

(1) Any person being the owner of a motor fishing boat may apply to a licensing officer for a licence in respect of the motor fishing boat to-
(a) trawl for fish or shrimp in Nigeria's territorial waters or Nigeria's exclusive economic zone; or
(b) navigate for the purpose of discharging imported frozen fish in any Nigerian port; or
(c) navigate Nigerian or foreign waters for the purpose of processing or discharging wet fish caught from such waters in any Nigerian port.
(2) An application for a licence shall be in such form and manner as may be prescribed and shall-
(a) contain the particulars and descriptions of the motor fishing boat in respect of which the application is made; and
(b) a statement in detail as to-
(i) the methods to be employed for taking fish;
(ii) the area within which it is proposed that the motor fishing boat shall operate;
(iii) the arrangements that are to be made for the preservation and marketing of the catch in Nigeria; and
(iv) such particulars as may be required, from time to time, by regulations made under this Act.