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 patner states
- Co-ordinating maritime spatial planning and intergrated 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