FISHING CONTENT
FISHING INDUSTRY
The Somali Labour Party as mentioned in its Constitution is a party of production, service, construction and positively nation developing one, which is committed in strong sense to strive to sustain , feed, and take care of all essentially needed productions so to alleviate hunger and suffering of its population through hard work, innovation, technology, good governance based on transparency, accountability and above all reliance on Allah the Almighty, the Provider and Sustainer that feeds all livings in his World.Knowing that the concept of farming is very huge and multi disciplinary concepts our farming policy must match those concept and focus on all aspects of farming in our Country from Agriculture, Livestock, fishing, poultry, and so fourth in order to benefit from all God given resources to us from the different farming sectors or industries.
In order to materialize and consequently implement its farming policy The Somali Labour Party shall elaborate separate and joint policy of all Farming industry, and shall commit itself to supervise transparently that policy through strict and accurate accountability of its implementation.
The following are the Labour Party Fishing Industry Policy:
A) Among the blessings of Allah is fishing profession and it constitutes one of the most important industry in Somalia since it is been always one the main source of food in the history on mankind as well as the Somali history of God given resource, income as well as export for the Somali people and for the economy of the Nation.
B) The Somali Labour party shall commit itself to develop concrete and solid strategy to develop rules and regulation that will benefit all those in the fishing business whether private or public so to promote and increase participation and production since our Country is blessed by Allah with the longest Ocean and sea shores rich of numerously and quality very excellent sea food staffs.
C) The party shall mainly focus on privately owned Fishing industry and commit itself to provide needed services such as loans to purchase essential needs like fishing boats, fishing nets, fish processing mobile and immobile small and medium size factories with all necessary tools and fish processing equipments, generators, solar energy tools, water pumping and salt water purification tools, and shall also commit a tax relief policy for five years period for all imports related to the fishing industry.
D) Shall commit itself to guarantee land ownership is strongly protected by the law and small fishing groups and privately owned big fishing farms are given security and guarantee for the personal lives and property, shall also encourage privately owned large Fishing Corporations that shall not be a threat to small fishing group in land ownership as well as fishing zones in the sea.
E) The Somali Labour Party shall commit itself to provide proper knowledge and experience to all Fishing industry groups by establishing special Vocational Schools for Fishermen and women, re-training former fishermen and women professionals equipping them with all necessary and possible tools to increase the effectiveness in their fields, giving them the opportunity to attend and participate in seminars.
F) Shall encourage and fund through Bank loan all essential and necessary fish produce such as all variety of God given blessing to our seas which it will be impossible to mention their names in this very short space but will try to tell some the very famous sea food groups in our water like the King Fish , Tuna, Lobsters in its variety, shrimps, sharks in their variety, whales, sea tortoise, and so forth.
G) The Somali Labour Party shall also encourage the production of processed fish , canned , and dried sea food, as well as their marketing policy that shall include local, regional and international exports, so to encourage Somali fishing industry to compete with all industries that are currently involved in this business field.
H) Shall commit itself to accurately search for the disputed former Somali owned fishing boats and related equipments ownership through collective efforts to be done by the Judiciary and local former Somali fishermen that are aware of the past owners of the legally disputed fishing boats and related, also to re-certify and legalize all lost documents related to those fishing boats, ships, factories ownership but only after transparently accurate and last and not revocable sentence of the Supreme Court.
I) Shall create and establish Committees that shall be in charge of the revitalization and re-starting process of the party fishing policy from small size, medium and large size or corporate fishing industries, assist them in reclaiming their business, connecting them with the International fishing Industry, with Markets as well as with potential investors if offered.
J) Shall commit itself to welcome all former foreign fishing industry partners, give them back their fishing titles and shares after careful evaluation and investigation of their genuine fishing partnership ownership documents, and for this case shall establish special committee with enough experience and knowledge about the Somalia fishing industry before 1990.
K) In case of fishing license ownership lease expiration the specially appointed committee shall see and evaluate when did that expiration occurred if it was before 1990 or after 1990 , in both case the committee shall decide accordingly whether and extension or a revocation is applicable in the case that shall be compatible and in accordance with the Rule of Laws of the country that regulates fishing license ownership cases.
L) The party fiscal policy should be put on hold for five years and fishermen shall be tax exempted as an incentive to alleviate income lost suffering during the Somali Civil Wars as well as a tax freeze and exemption for all fishing industry related imports such as fishing boats, ships, tractors and its parts, fishing solar energy tools, and so forth.
M) The Somali Labour party shall seriously commit itself to encourage Somali fishing industry, guarantees the creation of several incentives that shall re-ignite and re-boost it in order to pave the road a transparent and legally accountable industry that will cover internal demands of the Somali population for sea food, the regional country demands as well as the International markets demands Insha Allah.